The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods

by Todd Sandler, Ravi Kanbur, Professor Ravi Kanbur

This essay focuses on the future of multilateral development assistance, in light of the lessons of aid effectiveness in the last fifty years, and bearing in mind emerging development issues. It examines the rationale for multilateral forms of assistance, going back to the Bretton Woods conference, and argues that the multilateral approach has been successful in some areas, such as pooling of lending risks, but not in others, such as controlling free-rider...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565170261
• ISBN13: 9781565170261
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Overseas Development Council
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"