Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 2, pp. 255-257
We examine the effect of relaxing a binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country on the amount of foreign aid, in a two-country, two-period, trade-theoretic framework. The relaxation unambiguously reduces the flow of foreign aid.