Aid and Policy Preference in Oil-Rich Countries: Comparing Indonesia and Nigeria

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 January 2014
Country:
Indonesia and Nigeria
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Economic Growth
First published:
1 January 2014
Authors:
Fuady, A.

Abstract

This paper analyses the role of foreign aid to assist development in two oil-rich countries: Indonesia and Nigeria. This paper seeks to understand the way foreign aid provided assistance to transform Indonesia from a 鈥榝ragile鈥� state in the 1960s into one of the 鈥楢sian Tigers鈥� in the mid-1990s, and why it did not prevent Nigeria from falling into 鈥楢frican Tragedy鈥�. This paper argues that foreign aid could help not only to finance development, but also to navigate policy makers鈥� policy choices. It shows how foreign aid could or could not help policy makers turn their policy preferences into action.

Citation

Fuady, A. Aid and Policy Preference in Oil-Rich Countries: Comparing Indonesia and Nigeria. UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland (2014) 22 pp. [WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/023]

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