2002 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Defining International Public Goods
Conceptual Issues
verfasst von : Oliver Morrissey, Dirk Willem te Velde, Adrian Hewitt
Erschienen in: International Public Goods
Verlag: Springer US
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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International public goods (IPGs) achieved prominence with the United Nations Development Programme’s publication Global Public Goods (Kaul, Grunberg, and Stern 1999). That study adopted a wide-ranging definition of IPGs that encompassed a broad range of development activities. Analytically, the definition has since been narrowed by, for example, Kanbur, Sandler, and Morrison (1999). Operationally, the World Bank (2001) has further distinguished between core and complementary activities associated with the provision of IPGs (see also chapter 1 in this volume). The essential point here is that IPGs provide widely available benefits, and providing these benefits is the core activity. However, helping people or countries to actually avail themselves of the public goods (to “consume” them) may also be necessary. Such enabling expenditures are complementary to the core activities.