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Private Donations for International Development

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  • John Micklewright
  • Anna Wright

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Charitable donations by private individuals and firms can help fund the Millennium Development Goals. What are the prospects for increasing donations for international development, whether from small-scale donors, the super-rich (as in the recent gifts by Bill Gates and Ted Turner), or the corporate sector? The paper starts by reviewing how large are the sums currently given in OECD countries (including gifts of time) and the problems development has in competing with domestic causes.

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  • John Micklewright & Anna Wright, 2003. "Private Donations for International Development," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2003-82, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Keywords

    Economic development; Nonprofit organizations; Social responsibility of business; Taxation;
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    JEL classification:

    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
    • L31 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship
    • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations

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