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Gustav Ranis addresses our recent article in this journal where we argued that foreign aid is unable to solve the economic problem and thus unable to make poor countries rich (Skarbek and Leeson 2009). The following quotations from his article summarize his main objections to our argument:...
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Gustav Ranis addresses our recent article ("What Can Aid Do?" Skarbek and Leeson 2009) where we argued that foreign aid is unable to solve the economic problem and thus unable to make poor countries rich. This paper response to his objections
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P.T. Bauer boldly conjectured two hypotheses about the process of escaping poverty. First, he argued that foreign aid not only fails to promote economic progress, but may actually retard this process. Second, Bauer argued that private property rights are necessary and sufficient for economic...
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How does foreign aid affect recipient countries’ political institutions? Two competing hypotheses offer contradictory predictions. The first sees aid, when delivered correctly, as an important means of making dictatorial recipient countries more democratic. The second sees aid as a corrosive...
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Current proposals for strengthening policy ownership in reforming economies are fundamentally flawed. Modeling the reform process as a prisoners' dilemma demonstrates that political agents must overcome this conflict of interests before present proposals for bolstering ownership will work. A...
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