Individual and Country-Level Factors Affecting Support for Foreign Aid
In recent years donor countries have committed to dramatic increases in the supply of foreign aid to developing countries. Meeting and sustaining such commitments will require sufficient support among donor country voters and taxpayers. The determi...
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okr-10986-69842021-04-23T14:02:32Z Individual and Country-Level Factors Affecting Support for Foreign Aid Paxton, Pamela Knack, Stephen ADVOCACY GROUPS AID AGENCIES AID POLICIES AID RECIPIENTS ALLIANCES ARMED FORCES BOUNDARIES CHARITIES CONFLICT CONFLICT RESOLUTION CRISES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT AID DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DOMESTIC POLICIES DONOR COUNTRIES DONOR COUNTRY ECONOMIC AID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC ISSUES EFFECTIVENESS OF AID EXPORTS FEMALE FOREIGN AID FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN POLICIES FOREIGN POLICY FOREIGNERS FOUNDATIONS GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDERS INCLUSION INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL DONORS INTERNATIONALISM ISOLATIONISM MEETING MILITARY AID MOVEMENT MULTILATERAL AGENCIES MULTILATERAL AID MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS NATIONS OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC POLICY RECIPIENT COUNTRIES RECIPIENT COUNTRY RECONSTRUCTION REFUGEES SOCIETY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WAR WOMAN WORLD DEVELOPMENT WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS WORTH In recent years donor countries have committed to dramatic increases in the supply of foreign aid to developing countries. Meeting and sustaining such commitments will require sufficient support among donor country voters and taxpayers. The determinants of public opinion in donor countries on foreign aid have received little attention. This paper examines attitudes to foreign aid with a large, multi-level, cross-national study. It outlines a theoretical rationale for support for foreign aid, discussing the importance of both individual factors and economic and social structures. The theory is tested with multi-level models, including both individual-level and country-level variables to predict positive attitudes. Two datasets are used to measure attitudes in donor countries: (1) the 1995 World Values Survey has information from approximately 6,000 individuals in nine countries and asks a rich battery of questions at the individual-level, and (2) the 2002 Gallup "Voice of the People" survey asks fewer questions of individuals but includes 17 donor countries. Using both surveys combines their distinct strengths and allows tests of individual and national-level theories across disparate samples. The results generally support the predictions that attitudes toward aid are influenced by religiosity, beliefs about the causes of poverty, awareness of international affairs, and trust in people and institutions. 2012-06-04T15:30:19Z 2012-06-04T15:30:19Z 2008-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/09/9829102/individual-country-level-factors-affecting-support-foreign-aid http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6984 English Policy Research Working Paper No. 4714 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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ADVOCACY GROUPS AID AGENCIES AID POLICIES AID RECIPIENTS ALLIANCES ARMED FORCES BOUNDARIES CHARITIES CONFLICT CONFLICT RESOLUTION CRISES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT AID DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DOMESTIC POLICIES DONOR COUNTRIES DONOR COUNTRY ECONOMIC AID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC ISSUES EFFECTIVENESS OF AID EXPORTS FEMALE FOREIGN AID FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN POLICIES FOREIGN POLICY FOREIGNERS FOUNDATIONS GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDERS INCLUSION INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL DONORS INTERNATIONALISM ISOLATIONISM MEETING MILITARY AID MOVEMENT MULTILATERAL AGENCIES MULTILATERAL AID MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS NATIONS OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC POLICY RECIPIENT COUNTRIES RECIPIENT COUNTRY RECONSTRUCTION REFUGEES SOCIETY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WAR WOMAN WORLD DEVELOPMENT WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS WORTH |
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ADVOCACY GROUPS AID AGENCIES AID POLICIES AID RECIPIENTS ALLIANCES ARMED FORCES BOUNDARIES CHARITIES CONFLICT CONFLICT RESOLUTION CRISES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT AID DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT BANKS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DOMESTIC POLICIES DONOR COUNTRIES DONOR COUNTRY ECONOMIC AID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC ISSUES EFFECTIVENESS OF AID EXPORTS FEMALE FOREIGN AID FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN POLICIES FOREIGN POLICY FOREIGNERS FOUNDATIONS GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDERS INCLUSION INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL DONORS INTERNATIONALISM ISOLATIONISM MEETING MILITARY AID MOVEMENT MULTILATERAL AGENCIES MULTILATERAL AID MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS NATIONS OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC POLICY RECIPIENT COUNTRIES RECIPIENT COUNTRY RECONSTRUCTION REFUGEES SOCIETY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WAR WOMAN WORLD DEVELOPMENT WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS WORTH Paxton, Pamela Knack, Stephen Individual and Country-Level Factors Affecting Support for Foreign Aid |
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In recent years donor countries have
committed to dramatic increases in the supply of foreign aid
to developing countries. Meeting and sustaining such
commitments will require sufficient support among donor
country voters and taxpayers. The determinants of public
opinion in donor countries on foreign aid have received
little attention. This paper examines attitudes to foreign
aid with a large, multi-level, cross-national study. It
outlines a theoretical rationale for support for foreign
aid, discussing the importance of both individual factors
and economic and social structures. The theory is tested
with multi-level models, including both individual-level and
country-level variables to predict positive attitudes. Two
datasets are used to measure attitudes in donor countries:
(1) the 1995 World Values Survey has information from
approximately 6,000 individuals in nine countries and asks a
rich battery of questions at the individual-level, and (2)
the 2002 Gallup "Voice of the People" survey asks
fewer questions of individuals but includes 17 donor
countries. Using both surveys combines their distinct
strengths and allows tests of individual and national-level
theories across disparate samples. The results generally
support the predictions that attitudes toward aid are
influenced by religiosity, beliefs about the causes of
poverty, awareness of international affairs, and trust in
people and institutions. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Paxton, Pamela Knack, Stephen |
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Paxton, Pamela Knack, Stephen |
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Paxton, Pamela |
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Individual and Country-Level Factors Affecting Support for Foreign Aid |
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Individual and Country-Level Factors Affecting Support for Foreign Aid |
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Individual and Country-Level Factors Affecting Support for Foreign Aid |
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Individual and Country-Level Factors Affecting Support for Foreign Aid |
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Individual and Country-Level Factors Affecting Support for Foreign Aid |
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individual and country-level factors affecting support for foreign aid |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/09/9829102/individual-country-level-factors-affecting-support-foreign-aid http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6984 |
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