Author: Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Senior Fellow for International Economics
January/February 2010
Foreign Affairs
As the Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo argues, the concept of foreign aid is flawed -- not just because corrupt dictators divert aid for nefarious or selfish purposes but also because even in reasonably democratic countries, aid creates perverse incentives and unintended consequences.
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