On the optimal timing of foreign aid

Abstract

This essay develops a model of foreign aid in a dynamic framework. It is shown that there will be an initial stock transfer followed by a continuous flow transfer. If the donor is wealthier than the recipient, both before and after aid, and if there is no restriction on the sign of the latter, then along the optimal path the flow transfer is opposite in sign to the stock transfer.

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