Aid by altruistic donors may induce recipients to reduce their own contribution to development efforts in order to elicit more aid from donors. Help by well-intentioned donors may reduce the welfare of needy. Donors may not be able to deter deviant recipients as any punishment involves reducing...

This paper develops a two-period-two-country model in which an altruistic donor faces Samaritan's Dilemma to address two important policy questions: (i) whether foreign aid can lead to efficient level of capital investment in the recipient country and (ii) how do the form (e.g. budgetary...

The Samaritan’s dilemma problem is analyzed in the article. Based on the Buchanan’s model, the strategies formulated according to the classical decision theory criterions were considered. Here, the impact of all the decision strategies combinations was evaluated from the point of social...