A Paradox of Redistribution in International Aid? The Determinants of Poverty-Oriented Development Assistance

Thilo Bodenstein and Achim Kemmerling

World Development, 2015, vol. 76, issue C, 359-369

Abstract: Donors differ in the amount of official development assistance dedicated to poverty reduction. We investigate the causes of variation over time and donors by employing both a regression approach with aggregate data on bilateral aid and two short country studies on Germany and the United Kingdom. We find that there is a trade-off between the total amount of money given, and the amount of money given to poor countries. The trade-off is similar to the paradox of redistribution of targeting vs. redistribution in rich welfare states. Case-study evidence illustrates how countries have managed this tradeoff.

Keywords: poverty reduction; political economy; official development assistance; bilateral aid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.08.001

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