Uri Dadush

Rich countries help poor countries in many ways. Aid is often justified on humanitarian grounds, and rightly so. But is it also in the self-interest of rich countries? The purpose of this book is to provide a precise answer. It is in the self-interest of a rich country to provide a poor country with assistance when the poor country produces goods the rich country wants to buy and buys goods that the rich country is best at producing. The rich country...