The research described in this book suggests that a properly designed and sufficiently massive economic development assistance project-a Global Marshall Plan-could tremendously reduce the economic gap between the richest and poorest nations within a 50-year planning period.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
1. Global Economic Inequality
1
Is It a Problem?
5
Outline of the Study
20
2. Foreign Aid: History and Evaluation
34
Six Decades of Foreign Aid
38
Research on Foreign Aid
51
Viewpoints on Foreign Aid
59
GMP Aspirations
66
3. A Global Marshall Plan Model
77
Theoretical Specification
80
Numerical Implementation
87
Validation of the Model
97
Appendix: Nations in the World Bank Dataset
105
4. Application of the GMP Model
110
Benchmark Policy Simulation
113
Burden of the GMP
125
Sensitivity Analysis
130
5. Summary and Conclusion
140
Evaluating the Research
145
The Implementation Issue
160
Why a GMP?
163
Notes
171
Index
186
