Foreign Aid Effectiveness and the Strategic Goals of Donor Governments

Bearce, David H.; Tirone, Daniel C.

doi:10.1017/s0022381610000204

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“…First, the geostrategic importance of the recipient shapes how much the donor will be willing to push for aid to be used for development and democracy promotion. Many studies note that the end of the Cold War had a marked impact on the ability of donors to use aid for development, reform, and democracy (Dunning 2004;Wright 2009;Bearce and Tirone 2010;Bermeo 2010Bermeo , 2011. Promoting development and democracy is likely to be much closer to the preferences of the public in many poor countries.…”

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Citizen preferences and public goods: comparing preferences for foreign aid and government programs in Uganda

2016

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Different theories about the impact of aid make distinct predictions about citizens' attitudes toward foreign aid in recipient countries. We investigate their preferences toward aid and government projects in order to examine these different theories. Are citizens indifferent between development projects funded by their own government versus those funded by foreign aid donors, as aid capture theory suggests? To address this, in an experiment on a large, representative sample of Ugandan citizens, we randomly assigned the names of funding groups for actual forthcoming development projects and invited citizens to express support attitudinally and behaviorally. We find that citizens are significantly more willing to show behavioral support in favor of foreign aid projects compared to government programs, especially if they already perceive the government as corrupt or clientelist or if they are not supporters of the ruling party. They also trust donors more, think they are more effective, and do not consistently oppose aid conditionality. This experimental evidence is consistent with a theory that we call donor control which sees donors asbeing able to target and condition aid so that it is not fungible with government revenues and thus to be able to better direct it to meet citizens' needs.

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Citizen preferences and public goods: comparing preferences for foreign aid and government programs in Uganda

2016

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“…The present work, dialoguing with the studies that sought to analyze the patterns of the supply of traditional foreign aid (ALESINA and DOLLAR, 2000;BEARCE AND TIRONE, 2010;BERMEO, 2008;BERTHÉLEMY, 2006;DREHER, NUNNENKAMP and THIELE, 2008;KUZIEMKO AND WERKER, 2006;MCKINLEY AND LITTLE, 1977), seeks to investigate the determinants of the allocation of Brazilian foreign aid.…”

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Foreign aid and the governance of international financial organizations: the Brazilian-bloc case in the IMF and the World Bank

Apolinário

2016

Bras. Political Sci. Rev.

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“…12 For example, Sarah blodgett bermeo has found that there is a positive relationship between aid provided by democratic donors and the likelihood of transitions to democracy if one analyses time period after 1990. 13 yet, as the scientist herself states, there are at least two possible explanations of this phenomenon: a) democratic aid causes transition to democracy; b) democratic countries provide aid to those countries that are more likely to undergo a transition.…”

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