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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Main Authors:	Fink, Guenther, Redaelli, Silvia
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	AID AGENCIES AID ALLOCATION AID COORDINATION AID FLOWS BANKS BILATERAL AID BILATERAL RELATION BILATERAL RELATIONS CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY CIVIL WAR CLIMATE CHANGE CRED DAT DATABASE DEATH TOLL DECLARATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT AID DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DISASTER DISASTER AID DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER TYPE DISASTER TYPES DISCRIMINATION DROUGHT DROUGHTS EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EMERGENCIES EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE EMERGENCY RELIEF EMERGENCY RESPONSE EMERGENCY SITUATION EMERGENCY SITUATIONS EVACUATION EXPORTS FATALITIES FIRE FIRES FLOOD FLOODS HEAT WAVES HUMAN RIGHTS HUMANITARIAN AID HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE HUMANITARIANISM HURRICANE IMPORTS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INSURANCE INSURANCE COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES INTERNATIONAL AID INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS NEGOTIATION NEGOTIATIONS NEUTRALITY PHYSICAL DAMAGE PRIVATE DONORS RECONSTRUCTION RELIEF OPERATIONS RESPONSE TO DISASTER SLOW ONSET DISASTERS SMOKE STD TARP TERRORISM TSUNAMI VOLCANO WAR WARS WIND STORM WIND STORMS WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
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spelling	okr-10986-40352021-04-23T14:02:14Z Determinants of International Emergency Aid : Humanitarian Need Only? Fink, Guenther Redaelli, Silvia AID AGENCIES AID ALLOCATION AID COORDINATION AID FLOWS BANKS BILATERAL AID BILATERAL RELATION BILATERAL RELATIONS CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY CIVIL WAR CLIMATE CHANGE CRED DAT DATABASE DEATH TOLL DECLARATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT AID DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DISASTER DISASTER AID DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER TYPE DISASTER TYPES DISCRIMINATION DROUGHT DROUGHTS EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EMERGENCIES EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE EMERGENCY RELIEF EMERGENCY RESPONSE EMERGENCY SITUATION EMERGENCY SITUATIONS EVACUATION EXPORTS FATALITIES FIRE FIRES FLOOD FLOODS HEAT WAVES HUMAN RIGHTS HUMANITARIAN AID HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE HUMANITARIANISM HURRICANE IMPORTS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INSURANCE INSURANCE COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES INTERNATIONAL AID INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS NEGOTIATION NEGOTIATIONS NEUTRALITY PHYSICAL DAMAGE PRIVATE DONORS RECONSTRUCTION RELIEF OPERATIONS RESPONSE TO DISASTER SLOW ONSET DISASTERS SMOKE STD TARP TERRORISM TSUNAMI VOLCANO WAR WARS WIND STORM WIND STORMS WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS 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. 2012-03-19T19:08:48Z 2012-03-19T19:08:48Z 2009-02-01 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 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4839 5603 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper The World Region The World Region
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topic	AID AGENCIES AID ALLOCATION AID COORDINATION AID FLOWS BANKS BILATERAL AID BILATERAL RELATION BILATERAL RELATIONS CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY CIVIL WAR CLIMATE CHANGE CRED DAT DATABASE DEATH TOLL DECLARATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT AID DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DISASTER DISASTER AID DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER TYPE DISASTER TYPES DISCRIMINATION DROUGHT DROUGHTS EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EMERGENCIES EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE EMERGENCY RELIEF EMERGENCY RESPONSE EMERGENCY SITUATION EMERGENCY SITUATIONS EVACUATION EXPORTS FATALITIES FIRE FIRES FLOOD FLOODS HEAT WAVES HUMAN RIGHTS HUMANITARIAN AID HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE HUMANITARIANISM HURRICANE IMPORTS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INSURANCE INSURANCE COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES INTERNATIONAL AID INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS NEGOTIATION NEGOTIATIONS NEUTRALITY PHYSICAL DAMAGE PRIVATE DONORS RECONSTRUCTION RELIEF OPERATIONS RESPONSE TO DISASTER SLOW ONSET DISASTERS SMOKE STD TARP TERRORISM TSUNAMI VOLCANO WAR WARS WIND STORM WIND STORMS WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
spellingShingle	AID AGENCIES AID ALLOCATION AID COORDINATION AID FLOWS BANKS BILATERAL AID BILATERAL RELATION BILATERAL RELATIONS CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY CIVIL WAR CLIMATE CHANGE CRED DAT DATABASE DEATH TOLL DECLARATION DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT AID DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DISASTER DISASTER AID DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DISASTER PREVENTION DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RELIEF DISASTER RISK DISASTER TYPE DISASTER TYPES DISCRIMINATION DROUGHT DROUGHTS EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EMERGENCIES EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE EMERGENCY RELIEF EMERGENCY RESPONSE EMERGENCY SITUATION EMERGENCY SITUATIONS EVACUATION EXPORTS FATALITIES FIRE FIRES FLOOD FLOODS HEAT WAVES HUMAN RIGHTS HUMANITARIAN AID HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE HUMANITARIANISM HURRICANE IMPORTS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INSURANCE INSURANCE COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES INTERNATIONAL AID INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NATURAL HAZARDS NEGOTIATION NEGOTIATIONS NEUTRALITY PHYSICAL DAMAGE PRIVATE DONORS RECONSTRUCTION RELIEF OPERATIONS RESPONSE TO DISASTER SLOW ONSET DISASTERS SMOKE STD TARP TERRORISM TSUNAMI VOLCANO WAR WARS WIND STORM WIND STORMS WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS Fink, Guenther Redaelli, Silvia Determinants of International Emergency Aid : Humanitarian Need Only?
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relation	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4839
description	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.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Fink, Guenther Redaelli, Silvia
author_facet	Fink, Guenther Redaelli, Silvia
author_sort	Fink, Guenther
title	Determinants of International Emergency Aid : Humanitarian Need Only?
title_short	Determinants of International Emergency Aid : Humanitarian Need Only?
title_full	Determinants of International Emergency Aid : Humanitarian Need Only?
title_fullStr	Determinants of International Emergency Aid : Humanitarian Need Only?
title_full_unstemmed	Determinants of International Emergency Aid : Humanitarian Need Only?
title_sort	determinants of international emergency aid : humanitarian need only?
publishDate	2012
url	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
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