Mayer, Wolfgang; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis - Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), Økonomisk Institut
Why do donor countries give foreign aid? The answers found in the literature are: (i) because donor countries care for recipient countries (e.g. altruism), and/or (ii) because there exist distortions that make the indirect gains from foreign aid (e.g. terms of trade effects) to be larger than...
