Determinants of International Emergency Aid--Humanitarian Need Only?

We use an original data set covering 270 natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need appears to be a major determinant of emergency relief payments, our results suggest that political and strategic factors play a crucial role in emergency...

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Main Authors:	Fink, Gunther, Redaelli, Silvia
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Foreign Aid F350 Climate Natural Disasters Global Warming Q540
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5741

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spelling	okr-10986-57412021-04-23T14:02:23Z Determinants of International Emergency Aid--Humanitarian Need Only? Fink, Gunther Redaelli, Silvia Foreign Aid F350 Climate Natural Disasters Global Warming Q540 We use an original data set covering 270 natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need appears to be a major determinant of emergency relief payments, our results suggest that political and strategic factors play a crucial role in emergency aid allocation as well. 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. We also test and reject the independence of donors' aid decisions, finding strong evidence for bandwagon effects in humanitarian assistance. 2012-03-30T07:34:19Z 2012-03-30T07:34:19Z 2011 Journal Article World Development 0305750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5741 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo 3907 World Bank Journal Article
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description	We use an original data set covering 270 natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need appears to be a major determinant of emergency relief payments, our results suggest that political and strategic factors play a crucial role in emergency aid allocation as well. 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. We also test and reject the independence of donors' aid decisions, finding strong evidence for bandwagon effects in humanitarian assistance.
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author	Fink, Gunther Redaelli, Silvia
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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?
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Determinants of International Emergency Aid--Humanitarian Need Only?

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