Arbeitspapier

Financing the provision of global public goods

This paper examines the concept of global public goods (GPGs) and in that context explores the extent of aid (ODA) presently being diverted to GPG provision and whether such diversion skews aid-flows towards some recipients and whether diverting aid to GPG provision crowds out aid for conventional development activities. These are examined on the basis of OECD data for the late 1990s. The main argument of this paper is that ODA should not be used for financing GPG provision by developing countries. Instead, it is suggested that other sources of financing the provision of GPGs should be developed keeping in view the various technologies by which the GPGs can be produced and design principles for supra-national institutions. Various arguments from Sandler, Barrett and Kanbur are considered. In particular, Kanbur’s suggestion of two tensions involving the principles of economies of scale, subsidiarity, economies of scope and specialization, is explored further. Some examples of issues where a GPG is produced as a joint product of actions by national governments are considered by looking at data on eight different indicators for 1995. Problems in using the joint product approach to GPG provision are also discussed.

ISBN
9291903477
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2002/110

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Public Goods
Foreign Aid
Externalities
International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
International Fiscal Issues; International Public Goods
Thema
global public goods
international organizations
aid
externality
Global Environment Facility
Öffentliches Gut
Entwicklungshilfe
Externer Effekt
Internationale Organisation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Anand, P. B.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2002

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Anand, P. B.
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2002

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