IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bpj/lawdev/v4y2011i1n1.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Practice of Tying Development Aid: A Critical Appraisal from an International, WTO and EU Law Perspective

Author

Listed:
  • Serra Gianluca

Abstract

Tied aid consists in tying development aid to the purchase of products from the donor country. Under a tied aid regime a developed country grants funds to a developing partner country on condition that the donation is spent by the latter through procurement procedures in which only companies established in former are able to tender. Is such practice compatible with the “right” to development as currently defined in international law? Moreover, what are the implications of tied aid on the principles of free trade and competition as affirmed in WTO and EU law? Leaving aside the ongoing debate on aid effectiveness and the harmonization of donors’ practices, this study attempts to provide plausible answers to these not extensively researched legal questions.

Suggested Citation

  • Serra Gianluca, 2011. "The Practice of Tying Development Aid: A Critical Appraisal from an International, WTO and EU Law Perspective," The Law and Development Review, De Gruyter, vol. 4(1), pages 1-31, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:lawdev:v:4:y:2011:i:1:n:1
    DOI: 10.2202/1943-3867.1077
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.2202/1943-3867.1077
    Download Restriction: For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2202/1943-3867.1077?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Annamaria La Chimia & Sue Arrowsmith, 2009. "Addressing Tied Aid: Towards a More Development-Oriented WTO?," Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, vol. 12(3), pages 707-747, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Shirazi Fraid, 2012. "Virtual Bazaar: A Means of Supporting Microtrade in the Least Developed Countries," The Law and Development Review, De Gruyter, vol. 5(1), pages 29-49, May.
    2. Farrar Salim, 2014. "Arab Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Partners in Development?," The Law and Development Review, De Gruyter, vol. 7(2), pages 243-274, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Steve Charnovitz, 2014. "Green Subsidies and the WTO," RSCAS Working Papers 2014/93, European University Institute.
    2. Livia Fritz & Werner Raza, 2017. "Living up to Policy Coherence for Development? The OECD's disciplines on tied aid financing," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 35(6), pages 759-778, November.
    3. Charnovitz, Steve, 2014. "Green subsidies and the WTO," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7060, The World Bank.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bpj:lawdev:v:4:y:2011:i:1:n:1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.degruyter.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.