Foreign aid critics deny any shared international moral community obligating North-to-South transfers

Evidence

Like Bauer, Lal first rejects the argument that the South has a right to aid from the North, since such a moral claim rests on the false assertion that there is an international community bound by a single shared ethical standard. Second, insofar as citizens of the North are concerned about the poverty of their counterparts in the South, there is no guarantee that transfers from rich-country taxpayers to the governments of poor countries will, in fact, benefit the poor. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1775

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the two core neoliberal grounds for opposing foreign aid: the denial of an international moral community and the claim that transfers cannot be guaranteed to reach the poor.