@article{Jayaraman:127684, recid = {127684}, author = {Jayaraman, Rajshri and Kanbur, Ravi}, title = {International Public Goods and the Case for Foreign Aid}, address = {1999-03}, number = {642-2016-44024}, series = {WP}, pages = {19}, year = {1999}, abstract = {In the presence of international public goods, donors are faced with two instruments whereby recipient utility may be altered -contributions towards the international public good and direct transfers (conventional foreign aid). The self-interested donor's optimal choice of transfer-contributions combinations will typically depend upon the public goods technology. Some technologies call for a corner solution, with either transfers or contributions set to zero, and others are characterised by interior solutions, where the donor's optimal strategy calls for a positive transfers and positive contributions. Whether or not the presence of an international public good strengthens the case for conventional foreign liid transfers is therefore not always obvious.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/127684}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.127684}, }