IAFF 6101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Undue Influence
14 May 2016
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Official aid ~ billion; new donors (china, india, korea) provide about 10% of this. We currently don"t know how much ngos give. Remittances are about billion in 2013 (3xs more important than official aid for the country, not for the government) Fdi billion in 2013 to developing countries. This week"s book is very extreme in its view that good market can solve all the problems. Doesn"t really cover how governments can be effective mangers of the market and public services. Labor forcing down wages, no benefits or permanent status. Environment foreign enterprises may have short-term, not long-term, focus. Impacts on financial markets (e. g. east asia crisis, argentina crash) May focus only on returns and not on service delivery. Doing business publication on psd across countries. Schemes to speed up response in the market after reform: financing for private companies, management/marketing advice, matchmaking, technological dev free labs, training support (government spends a lot of money on tech assistance)
