Foreign aid’s advocates claim aid has been successful. Aid’s critics claim aid has failed. We explain why both camps are correct. Aid can, and in a few cases has, increased a particular output by devoting more resources to its production. In this sense, aid has occasionally had limited success. However, aid cannot, and has not, contributed to the solution of economic problems and therefore economic growth. In this much more important sense, aid has failed
Thesis advisor: Robert G. MurphyEach year increasing levels of development assistance are provided t...
This paper reviews the economics literature on foreign aid. Aid supporters tend to emphasize results...
The conclusion that foreign aid will promote economic growth only when allocated towards good policy...
Under normal conditions, devoting more resources to X’s produc-tion produces more X. This follows fr...
The main point of this paper is that foreign aid fails because the structure of its incentives resem...
This paper provides a critical review of the recent research on aid effectiveness. It argues that th...
The World Bank report Assessing Aid assumes that aid is more effective when it is given to countries...
This paper assesses the effect of economic instability on the success of the projects funded by the ...
One of the persistent, unresolved controversies of economic development is the effectiveness of deve...
Foreign aid looms large in the public discourse; and international development assistance remains sq...
Foreign aid has had, and continues to have, a multiplicity of goals. Five decades of development ass...
When aid is no help continues the debate about the efficacy of the global aid effort, concentrating ...
There is a widespread perception among academic researchers and aid practitioners alike that empiric...
Increasingly, it is becoming a given that the only secure basis for world peace and prosperity in th...
The current emphasis in development strategies on 'effective aid' is well summarised in this brave n...
Thesis advisor: Robert G. MurphyEach year increasing levels of development assistance are provided t...
This paper reviews the economics literature on foreign aid. Aid supporters tend to emphasize results...
The conclusion that foreign aid will promote economic growth only when allocated towards good policy...
Under normal conditions, devoting more resources to X’s produc-tion produces more X. This follows fr...
The main point of this paper is that foreign aid fails because the structure of its incentives resem...
This paper provides a critical review of the recent research on aid effectiveness. It argues that th...
The World Bank report Assessing Aid assumes that aid is more effective when it is given to countries...
This paper assesses the effect of economic instability on the success of the projects funded by the ...
One of the persistent, unresolved controversies of economic development is the effectiveness of deve...
Foreign aid looms large in the public discourse; and international development assistance remains sq...
Foreign aid has had, and continues to have, a multiplicity of goals. Five decades of development ass...
When aid is no help continues the debate about the efficacy of the global aid effort, concentrating ...
There is a widespread perception among academic researchers and aid practitioners alike that empiric...
Increasingly, it is becoming a given that the only secure basis for world peace and prosperity in th...
The current emphasis in development strategies on 'effective aid' is well summarised in this brave n...
Thesis advisor: Robert G. MurphyEach year increasing levels of development assistance are provided t...
This paper reviews the economics literature on foreign aid. Aid supporters tend to emphasize results...
The conclusion that foreign aid will promote economic growth only when allocated towards good policy...
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