期刊名称：Discussion paper / Centre for International Economic Studies, University of Adelaide
电子版ISSN：1445-3746
出版年度：2005
卷号：1
出版社：Centre for International Economic Studies, University of Adelaide
摘要：With the improvement of relationship with the western countries after the demise of the
old order regime of President Soekarno, Indonesia received a large volume of foreign aid
that played a crucial role in the recovery of the economy. Indonesia remained a
significant recipient of foreign aid through out the 1970s and 1980s, especially during the
balance of payments crises. In addition to smoothing out balance of payments problems
and providing budgetary supports, aid played an important catalyst for policy reforms
that are believed to have contributed to the spectacular success of the Indonesian
economy. However, no systematic study has been done so far on the effectiveness of
foreign aid in Indonesia. This issue has become critical in the wake of the financial crisis
of the late 1990s which turned Indonesia a heavily aid-dependent country as well as the
renewed world wide debate on aid effectiveness. This paper, thus, attempts to examine
the historical significance and effectiveness of aid flows to Indonesia. It finds that aid did
contribute positively to economic growth, but made the government lazy in terms of
domestic resource mobilisation. As a result, despite significance progress, Indonesia
remained aid-dependent.
关键词：Foreign aid, economic growth, balance of payments, government fiscal
behaviour.
