Overseas aid
John Micklewright and Peter Backus highlight trends in charitable giving to overseas development charities
There is a thriving debate on the effectiveness of development aid to poor countries and on improving the ways in which the money is spent; examples include Paul Collier’s book The Bottom Billion and Roger Riddell’s Does Foreign Aid Really Work? [1] At the same time, even with greater efficiency in spending of aid, more resources are still needed if the UN millennium development goals that were agreed by the world’s leaders in 2000 are to be achieved.
Author: Peter Backus
Peter Backus is a researcher in the ESRC Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Southampton and a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick.
Author: John Micklewright
John Micklewright is Professor of Social Statistics in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton.
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