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Can a Country Be a Donor and a Recipient of Aid?

In: Development in India

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  • Ravi Kanbur

    (Cornell University)

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India has now crossed the threshold into Middle Income Status. It is a nuclear power and has a space program. It has announced the formation of an agency to coordinate its aid donor activities. And yet India is the recipient of international aid as well. Can this configuration, on the face of it absurd, nevertheless make sense? This paper explores frameworks in which a Middle Income Country might go on receiving aid despite having crossed a poverty threshold on average. It begins with a discussion of “Global Rawlsianism” and its critics, most prominently Rawls himself, and assesses the moral salience of national level averages in determining global responsibility towards the poor in a country. The next section takes the perspective of Global Utilitarianism and discusses the allocation of global aid with the objective of poverty alleviation, and whether in this context it might make sense for a country to be a donor and a recipient of aid. Finally, the paper takes an operational perspective and discusses some of the key issues facing the international community in the next few years, including the nature of the replenishment of IDA, the World Bank’s concessional assistance window.

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  • Ravi Kanbur, 2016. "Can a Country Be a Donor and a Recipient of Aid?," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: S. Mahendra Dev & P.G. Babu (ed.), Development in India, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 71-81, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-81-322-2541-6_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2541-6_5
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    1. Ravi Kanbur, 2012. "Aid To The Poor In Middle Income Countries And The Future Of The International Development Association," Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy (JICEP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(02), pages 1-9.
    2. Kanbur, Ravi, 2012. "Aid To The Poor In Middle Income Countries And The Future Of Ida," Working Papers 128795, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.
    3. Bali, Namrata & Chen, Martha Alter & Kanbur, Ravi, 2012. "THE CORNELL-SEWA-WIEGO Exposure and Dialogue Programme: An Overview of the Process and Main Outcomes," Working Papers 128865, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.
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    12. Kanbur, Ravi, 2011. "Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty," CEPR Discussion Papers 8489, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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