Need, merit, and politics in multilateral aid allocation : a district-level analysis of World Bank projects in India
by Peter Nunnenkamp; Hannes Öhler; Maximiliano Sosa Andrés
The targeting of foreign aid within recipient countries is largely unexplored territory. We help close this gap in empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank activities tend to concentrate in relatively remote districts. Spatial lags prove to be significant and positive pointing to regional clustering. Institutional conditions matter insofar as project locations cluster in districts belonging to states with greater openness to trade. We do not find any evidence that location choices are affected by political patronage at the state or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects related to infrastructure. -- Aid allocation ; World Bank ; Indian districts ; political constituency
Year of publication: |
2012
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Authors: | Nunnenkamp, Peter ; Öhler, Hannes ; Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano |
Publisher: |
Kiel : Kiel Inst. for the World Economy |
Subject: | Entwicklungshilfe | Development aid | Entwicklungsprojekt | Development project | Regionales Cluster | Regional cluster | Standortfaktor | Location factor | Infrastrukturversorgung | Infrastructure provision | Auslandsinvestition | Foreign investment | Neue politische Ökonomie | Public choice | Welt | World | Indien | India |
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Extent: | Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 34 S., 276 KB) graph. Darst. |
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Series: | Kiel working paper. - Kiel : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1862-1155, ZDB-ID 2107612-1. - Vol. 1783 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/60333 [Handle] |
Classification: | F35 - Foreign Aid ; F53 - International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570504