The Public Interest

Foreign aid: what is at stake?

Basis Yamey & Peter Bauer

Summer 1982

MR. HOLLIS B. CHENERY, Vice President of the World Bank in charge of economic research, said last year that “Foreign aid is the central component of world development.” How can this be so? Large scale development occurs in many places without foreign aid, and did so long before foreign aid was invented.

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