Multilateral Intermediation of Foreign Aid: What is the Trade-Off for Donor Countries?

Matteo Bobba and Andrew Powell

No 1602, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Why would bilateral donors intermediate aid through a multilateral and not extend aid directly? This paper suggests a trade-off: multiple bilateral donors for each recipient may imply coordination and strategic problems but intermediating through a multilateral may dilute individual donor objectives. The paper conducts traditional panel and truly bilateral regressions with bilateral-pair, fixed effects to model aid allocation decisions. The results confirm that politics is important for bilateral donors but also that aid fragmentation and strategic behavior affect aid allocation. Multilaterals solve strategic and coordination problems between donors and, while politics remains significant, there is some evidence for a dilution of this effect.

Keywords: Multilateral; Intermediation; Foreign Aid; Donor Countries; WP-594 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-12
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