The economics of international aid

Ravi Kanbur

Chapter 26 in Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism, 2006, vol. 1, pp 1559-1588 from Elsevier

Abstract: This paper presents an overview of the economics of international aid, highlighting the historical literature and the contemporary debates. It reviews the "trade-theoretic" and the "contract-theoretic" analytical literature, and the empirical and institutional literature. It demonstrates a great degree of continuity in the policy concerns of the aid discourse in the twentieth century, and shows how the theoretical, empirical and institutional literature has evolved to address specific policy concerns of each period.

JEL-codes: Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 0-444-52145-3
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