Determinants of International Emergency Aid : Humanitarian Need Only?
The authors use an original data set covering more than 400 recent natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need is a major determinant of emergency relief payments, the results imply that...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090218082527 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4035 |
| Summary: | The authors use an original data set
covering more than 400 recent natural disasters to analyze
the determinants of international emergency aid. Although
humanitarian need is a major determinant of emergency relief
payments, the results imply that political and strategic
factors play a crucial role in the emergency aid allocation.
On average, donor governments favor smaller, geographically
closer, and oil exporting countries, and display significant
biases in favor of politically less aligned countries as
well as toward their former colonies. The authors also test
and reject the independence of donors' aid decisions,
finding strong evidence for bandwagon effects in
humanitarian assistance. |
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