How to Give Aid — A Recipient’s Point of View

Abstract

How should the poor countries be assisted in their struggle against poverty? One simple and perhaps most satisfying answer to the recipients would be to say that the poorer nations should be helped by the rich in the same way as the poor within the nation states were helped and are being helped in the industrially advanced countries. On the face of it, at any rate, such a proposition is likely to be accepted by many in the richer countries themselves. It may not be out of place, therefore, to begin by enquiring into the meaning and significance of the answer just given.

A paper prepared for the Fifth Cambridge Conference on Development Problems, September 1966, Jesus College, Cambridge, and reproduced in Ronald Robinson (ed.), International Cooperation in Aid (Cambridge University Courses Studies Committee, Cambridge, 1966).