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Aid Allocation (aid + allocation)

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Humanities and Social Sciences75%

Selected Abstracts

Self-Interest, Foreign Need, and Good Governance: Are Bilateral Investment Treaty Programs Similar to Aid Allocation?

FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS, Issue 3 2006
ERIC NEUMAYER
Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become the most important legal mechanism for the encouragement and governance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. Yet practically no systematic evidence exists on what motivates capital-exporting developed countries to sign BITs earlier with some developing countries than with others, if at all. The theoretical framework from the aid allocation literature suggests that developed countries pursue a mixture of self-interest, foreign need and, possibly, good governance. We find evidence that both economic interests of developed countries' foreign investors and political interests of developed countries determine their scheduling of BITs. However, foreign need as measured by per capita income is also a factor, whereas good governance by and large does not matter. These results suggest that BIT programs can be explained using the same framework successfully applied to the allocation of aid. At the same time, self-interest seems to be substantively more important than developing country need when it comes to BITs. [source]

Aid allocation to fragile states: Absorptive capacity constraints

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Issue 5 2009
Simon Feeny
Abstract The international donor community has grave concerns about the effectiveness of aid to countries it classifies as ,fragile states'. The impact of aid on growth and poverty reduction and the ability to efficiently absorb additional inflows is thought to be significantly lower in these countries compared to other recipients. This paper examines this issue and suggests that a while a number of fragile states can efficiently absorb more aid than they have received, a number receive far more aid than they can efficiently absorb from a perspective based purely on per capita income growth. Policy recommendations are provided. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

What determines African bilateral aid receipts?,

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Issue 8 2005
Mark McGillivray
This paper empirically models aid allocation to four African countries,Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Tanzania,using 1968,1999 time series data. The econometric method employed allows for the joint determination of aid to these countries and for recipient-specific coefficients. It is hypothesised that aid to these countries has been determined by a diverse set of determinants, ranging from their developmental needs or requirements through to donor commercial, political and strategic interests. A special interest of the paper is whether policy regimes have impacted on the amounts of aid received by these countries. Results indicate that they have for all four countries, although the direction of influence differs among them. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Determinants of Canadian bilateral aid allocations: humanitarian, commercial or political?

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Issue 2 2004
Ryan Macdonald
We draw on models of donor behaviour that allow us to incorporate humanitarian, commercial and political considerations , the ,trinity of mixed motives', that affect Canadian aid. We find that allocations are moderately altruistic. Recipient country human rights and membership in the Commonwealth and La Francophonie also affect aid flows. Most strikingly, our results suggest that Canadian aid flows became less altruistic over this period and commercial motives became increasingly important. JEL Classification: H50, O10 Les déterminants des allocations de l'aide humanitaire canadienne : humanitaires, commerciaux ou politiques? Ce mémoire étudie les déterminants de l'allocation de l'aide bilatérale canadienne dans la période 1984,2000. On utilise des modèles de comportement de donateur qui permettent de prendre en considérations les motivations humanitaires, commerciales et politiques , la trinité de motifs mixtes , qui affectent l'aide canadienne. On découvre que les allocations sont modérément altruistes. Le fait pour un pays de défendre bien les droits de la personne, et d'être membre du Commonwealth et de la Francophonie, affecte les flux d'aide. Plus important, peut-être, les résultats suggèrent qu'au cours de cette période les flux d'aide canadienne deviennent moins altruistes et les motifs commerciaux de plus en plus importants. [source]