Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31292 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2006-28
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
We argue that a purpose of foreign aid is to whet the appetite of the recipient in order to bring about a long term commitment to what the donor perceives as a need, but which the recipient may rank lower down on his list of undertakings, or may be sufficiently resource constrained as to be unable to start the project. In other words, we explore the implications and conditions for success of a donor trying to affect long-term recipient policy by creating path dependence. Once the project is established, aid can be removed without reversing the process that has been set in motion. Quite simply, the donor wants its project to stick. We place a formal structure on this.
Subjects: 
Foreign aid
rent seeking
governance
decentralization
JEL: 
O10
O19
F35
O11
C23
O47
E21
E22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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