What determines bilateral aid allocations? New evidence for time series data
McGillivray, Mark and Feeny, Simon 2008, What determines bilateral aid allocations? New evidence for time series data, Review of Development Economics, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 515-529, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2008.00443.x.
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What determines bilateral aid allocations? New evidence for time series data
This paper models the allocation of bilateral foreign development aid to developing countries. A simple theoretical framework is developed, in which aid is treated as a private good of a donor country bureaucratic group responsible for bilateral aid allocation. This model is applied to time series data for ten principal recipients of bilateral official development assistance. Features of this application are that it caters for the joint determination of aid allocations and for donor allocation behavior to differ among individual recipient countries. Results indicate that both recipient need and donor interest variables determine the amount of foreign aid to developing countries, and that donor allocation behavior often differs markedly among recipients.
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