= Foreign Assistance and Economic Development =

'''Foreign Assistance and Economic Development''' was written by Hollis B. Chenery and Alan M. Strout in 1966. It first emerged as a discussion paper in [[UnitedStates/AgencyForInternationalDevelopment|USAID]]. It was later published in the ''American Economic Review'' (vol. 56).

The authors examine international development aid through the lens of the [[Economics/HarrodDomarModel|Harrod-Domar model]]. They demonstrate the necessity of a rise in the savings rate in conjunction with an aid injection. Otherwise, the investment was a one-off expenditure that inflated production, and the impacts on [[Economics/BalanceOfPayments|balance of payments]] via servicing the debt negates any benefit .

The authors argue for successive aid injections, rather than focusing on the efficiency of a single aid injection.



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