Competition for aid and trade policy

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lahiri, S; RaimondosMoller, P
• 署名单位: Copenhagen Business School; University of Essex
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(97)00003-2
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 369-385
• 关键词: Optimal tariffs; Foreign aid

摘要

This paper considers the optimal allocation of a given amount of foreign aid between two recipient countries. It is shown that, given consumer preferences, a country following a more restrictive trade policy would receive a smaller share of the aid if the donor country maximises its own welfare in allocating aid. If, on the other hand, the donor country allocates aid in order to maximize the sum of the welfare of the two recipient countries, the result is just the opposite, Finally, we analyze the situation where the recipient countries compete with each other for the given amount of aid. It is shown that this competition tends to lower the level of optimal tariffs in the recipient countries.