Donor ideology and types of foreign aid

Viktor Brech and Niklas Potrafke

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960-2009 and distinguish between multilateral and bilateral aid, grants and loans, recipient characteristics such as income and political institutions, tied and untied aid, and aid by sector. The results show that leftist governments increased the growth of bilateral grant aid, and more specifically grant aid to least developed and lower middle-income countries. Our findings confirm partisan politics hypotheses because grants are closely analogous to domestic social welfare transfer payments, and poverty and inequality are of greatest concern for less developed recipient countries.

Date: 2013
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Published in Journal of Comparative Economics 1 42(2013): pp. 61-75

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