Financing development: time for a new approach?

Percy Mistry

Financing development: time for a new approach?

2003

Percy Mistry

Why has aid failed to achieve development? Should other forms of financing for development (FfD) be emphasised instead for narrowing the wealth and income gaps between developing and developed countries? Are developed countries and international financial institutions (IFIs) doing enough to help developing countries mobilise domestic resources, encourage foreign investment and expand earnings from trade?

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AGROVOC Keywords

debt globalisation pcf privatisation trade

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Publisher

id21 Development Research Reporting Service

Other Subjects

Finance policy.taxation; Financing for development; Finance policy.foreign direct investment; Finance policy.international capital flows.international capital flows fdi.international capital flows taxation; Private capital flows; Ffd; Gross domestic savings; Ifi; Hipc; Fdi; Heavily indebted poor country; Agriculture and food.international cooperation for development; Agriculture and food; Gds; International financial institution; Foreign direct investment; Finance policy.private sector; Debt relief; Domestic resource mobilisation; Finance policy.international capital flows.international capital flows fdi; Aid and debt; Tax; Finance policy.international capital flows; Finance policy; Oda; Official development assistance