Udviklingsbistanden i perspektiv

Finn Tarp

Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift, 2003, vol. 2003, issue 1, 164-186

Abstract: Foreign aid has evolved considerably ove the last five decades in response to a dramatically changing global political and economic context. This paper takes a retrospective look at this process and discusses whether aid has been effective in furthering economic growth and development. The implications for the donor community of the decreasing relative importance of aid are assessed, and five examples of how aid policy can be improved in the future are put forward. I argue, in particular, that much greater care should be exercised when applying macro performance evaluation to development assistance. This approach increases the risk of aid becoming politicized and allocated ineffeciently. Instead, a concerted effort should be made to draw much more on microeconomic insights and understanding in aid design and implementation.

Keywords: udviklingsbistand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.xn--nt-lka.dk/files/2003/2003.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Udviklingsbistanden i perspektiv (2003)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:jdaecn:0202

Access Statistics for this article

Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift is currently edited by Jan Rose Skaksen

More articles in Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift from Nationaløkonomisk Forening Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Lasse Wolsgård ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).