Footnote:
* T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics, Cornell University.
Paper presented to the IADB/ADB Conference on Regional Public Goods and Regional development Assistance, Washington,
D.C., November 6-7, 2002. The arguments in this paper are based on and develop the propositions in my
earlier work in this area. See, for example, Ravi Kanbur, Todd Sandler and Kevin Morrisson, The Future of
Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods, ODC, 1999
(http://www.arts.cornell.edu/poverty/kanbur/Future of Development Assistance.pdf); Ravi Kanbur, “Aid,
Conditionality and Debt in Africa,” in F. Tarp (ed.) Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions
for the Future, Routledge, 2000
(http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/sk145/papers/africaid.pdf); Ravi
Kanbur and David Vines, “the World Bank and Poverty Reduction: Past, Present and Future,” in
Christopher Gilbert and David Vines (eds.) The World Bank: Structure and Policies, Cambridge University
Press, 2000; Ravi Kanbur, “Cross-Border Externalities, International Public Goods and Their Implications
for Aid Agencies,” Mimeo, Cornell University, 2001
(http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/sk145/papers/IPGWB.pdf);
Ravi Kanbur, “IFI’s and IPG’s:
Operational Implications for the World Bank,” Paper prepared for the G24 Technical Group Meeting, 2002
(http://www.arts.cornell.edu/poverty/kanbur/IFI-IPG.pdf);
Ravi Kanbur, “The New Partnership for Africa’s
Development: An Initial Commentary,” Politikon, 29(1), 87-100, 2002
(http://www.arts.cornell.edu/poverty/kanbur/POVNEPAD.pdf).
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