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Easy Money, Hard Questions: Rethinking Development Funding

Posted on 20 May 202620 May 2026 By Perumal Koshy No Comments on Easy Money, Hard Questions: Rethinking Development Funding
Easy Money, Hard Questions: Rethinking Development Funding

Debates over development funding often become confined to the narrow language of compliance, regulation, political oversight, and financial accountability. Yet this focus overlooks a deeper and more consequential economic question: what happens when large and continuous flows of external funding begin to reshape local economic incentives? The effects are not merely financial. Over time, “easy…

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