Symposium: Providing Foreign Aid: Need, Self-Interest, or Something Else?

[This is a post-publication review symposium.] The study of development assistance or foreign aid often examines whether it is effective or not or why aid is allocated in the first place. A debate over aid efficacy between the aid enthusiasts, such as Jeffrey Sachs, and the aid skeptics, like William Easterly, continues without signs of abating. One way possibly out of this spiral is better evidence. The following symposium attempts to humbly add to this effort.