In this study we identify economic concepts and lay down some suggestions for reduction of poverty in Mauritania with regards to Official Development Assistance (ODA). Given that Official Development Assistance will presumably have a positive effect on the human development index, our study is the case of Mauritania to show the opposite. This can be explained by the lack of adequate economic policy monitoring mechanism of assistance to deal with corruption for a good distribution of aid and optimize the management of the latter. In view of the potential role of ODA in Mauritania, we identify some recommendations that could meet part of the two concerns which raises ODA in general: that of the transmission channels and the quality of institutions
Keywords: Gross domestic product per capita., Human Development Index, Index of instruction, Official Development Assistance, Public Assistance Development
