Aid-financed Investment Fetish Discussion

Aid-financed Investment Fetish Discussion

Instructions

  • What is the ‘aid-financed investment fetish’? What two historical events contributed to make it the dominant paradigm among policy makers for over fifty years? How or why? Hint: chapter 2 of Easterly (2002) is all about this.
  • Can you think of any recent or current event(s) that have shaped or could shape the way we think about economic growth and economic development? How or why?

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