Who Gives Aid to Whom and When?: Aid Accelerations, Shocks and Policies

Tilman Brück and Guo Xu

No 49, Economics of Security Working Paper Series from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient countries and 33 donors from 1960- 2007, we find that positive regime changes and wars are significant predictors of aid accelerations. Disaggregating aid flows by donors, we find indicative evidence for competing allocation rules, particularly among European donors. We argue that drivers of aid accelerations differ from drivers of average aid flows - a distinction that can reconcile some of the ambiguous empirical results in the aid literature.

Keywords: ODA; Growth Accelerations; Policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 F50 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 p.
Date: 2011
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Journal Article: Who gives aid to whom and when? Aid accelerations, shocks and policies (2012)
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