Against More Aid: Why Development Assistance Should Not Be Tripled

• Main Authors: VERWEIJ, Marco, GYAWALI, Dipak
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: foreign aid; developing countries; sustainability; social policy; Political Science; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/143
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Since the early 1990s, many have analyzed, criticized, lamented, and protested five decades of large-scale development aid gone disastrously wrong. They have made two main arguments. First, many low-income countries are hobbled by corrupt governance and uncompetitive markets. Second, for various unf...