Economic Development and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid: A Historical Perspective
从历史角度探讨外国援助的有效性，强调汇率政策在1970-1990年代援助争议中的作用，并指出受援国对援助项目的“所有权”能提升效果，同时批评单纯依赖截面回归的分析方法，主张结合长期国别案例研究。
Summary In this paper I discuss the effectiveness of foreign aid from a historical perspective. I show that foreign aid is a relatively new concept in economics, and I emphasize the role of exchange rate policies in the foreign aid controversies of the 1970s through 1990s. I show that in the early 1980s there were major changes in views regarding aid and agriculture. I emphasize the role of “ownership” of aid programs by the recipient countries as a way of increasing effectiveness. I argue that there is little hope of making progress in these debates if the economics profession continues to rely, almost exclusively, on cross section regressions. In order to move forward, these analyses need to be supplemented by in depth case studies that follow a country's history for many decades.