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Are Donor Countries Giving More or Less Aid?

Gupta, Sanjeev; Pattillo, Catherine A.; Wagh, Smita - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

The volume of foreign aid has increased during the last four decades, albeit with interruptions in certain years. Over time, the major recipients have changed: while the share of aid to Asia has diminished since the 1980s, that destined for sub-Saharan Africa has grown. There is some evidence...

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Dynamic Aid Allocation

Carter, Paddy; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper introduces a framework for studying the optimal dynamic allocation of foreign aid among multiple recipients. We pose the problem as one of weighted global welfare maximization. A donor in the North chooses an optimal path for international transfers, anticipating that consumption and...

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The Allocation of German Aid: Self-interest and Government Ideology

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Schmaljohann, Maya - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

We investigate the importance of geo-strategic and commercial motives for the allocation of German aid to 138 countries over the 1973-2010 period. We find that geo-strategic and – less robustly – commercial motives matter. When we relate geo-strategic and commercial motives to the political...

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Competition for Export Markets and the Allocation of Foreign Aid: The Role of Spatial Dependence among Donor Countries

Barthel, Fabian; Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

dependence in aid allocation. We employ sector-specific aid data, distinguishing between first and second stage decisions on the … for export competition driving aid allocation is lacking for more altruistic donors and for aid in social infrastructure …

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Needs-Based Targeting or Favoritism? The Regional Allocation of Multilateral Aid within Recipient Countries

Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We …

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Membership no longer has its privileges: The declining informal influence of Board members on IDA lending

Morrison, Kevin - In: The Review of International Organizations 8 (2013) 2, pp. 291-312

This paper examines the ability of Board members of the most important multilateral donor to developing countries, the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank, to influence IDA allocations toward their home countries. I show that a system of Bank staff ratings of individual...

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Donor coordination and specialization: did the Paris Declaration make a difference?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Thiele, Rainer - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 149 (2013) 3, pp. 537-563

We assess whether bilateral and multilateral donors of foreign aid specialized and coordinated their activities with other donors as agreed in the Paris Declaration of 2005. We account for donor heterogeneity, varying aid priorities and recipient characteristics in order to isolate changes in...

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The Needy Donor: An Empirical Analysis of India’s Aid Motives

Fuchs, Andreas; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - In: World Development 44 (2013) C, pp. 110-128

with our expectations of the behavior of a “needy” donor. Commercial and political self-interests dominate India’s aid … allocation. We find the importance of political interests to be significantly larger for India than for all donors of the …

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Explaining development aid allocation by growth

Doucouliagos, Hristos; Paldam, Martin - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 2 (2013) 1, pp. 21-41

less developed country to the development aid it receives. Does economic growth influence donor aid allocation decisions … presented of the literature of 30 empirical studies of aid allocation where a growth coefficient is estimated. Second, a primary … should be negative if humanitarian motives dominate aid allocation decisions. The result from both the meta‐analysis and the …

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Sécurité des riches contre besoins des pauvres ? L'aide à la santé en Afrique

Barry, Mamadou - In: Revue française de socio-Economie n° 11 (2013) 1, pp. 101-123

Right now the actors of development are more and more concerned by the negative effect the economic crisis since 2008 may have on the mobilization around health, especially among the poorest. In this paper, after having shown that we witnessed from the 2000s to the emergence of a new scheme to...

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