Fredrik Erixon
Economist
Fredrik Erixon is a Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), which he cofounded in 2006. He was previously the Chief Economist of Timbro, the leading Swedish think tank, where he supervised Timbro’s economics research program and specialized in international and development economics. The following is the Executive Summary from a report titled Aid and Development: Will it Work This Time? published by the International Policy Network, June 2003. For 50 years, proponents of `aid’ have argued that poor countries are poor because they lack the funds to invest in the infrastructure that would enable economic activity…
