On the Samaritan's Dilemma, foreign aid, and freedom

Artikel

This paper presents an extension of the two-period Samaritan's Dilemma in order to analyze the potential for foreign aid to promote freedom. An example is the United States' recent opening towards Cuba. It is shown that a donor nation's dual concern for economic reforms and greater freedoms can exacerbate the Samaritan's Dilemma, even when economic aid is coupled with targets for freedom. By contrast, a policy that is focused on freedom alone can potentially resolve the Samaritan's Dilemma. Such a policy requires the donor to temper the degree of altruism that motivates its provision of economic aid to the recipient nation.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Economies ; ISSN: 2227-7099 ; Volume: 6 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 1-17 ; Basel: MDPI

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation ; Foreign Aid ; International Relations and International Political Economy: Other ; Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games; Repeated Games
• Thema: Altruism ; Leading by example ; Policy formulation ; Hierarchical games

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Faria, Joao Ricardo ; Arce, Daniel
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): MDPI
• (wo): Basel
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.3390/economies6040053
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/197121
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ