History Says Financial Crisis Will Suppress Aid

October 14, 2008

graph Since 1970, four donor countries have been hit by major financial crises: Japan, Finland, Sweden, and Norway. In each case, the aid they provided fell in the wake of the crisis, but the size of the drop and the speed of recovery varied widely. CGD research fellow David Roodman shows the relationship between financial crises and aid flows in a chart-intensive blog posting.