Do Donors Target Aid in Line with the Millennium Development Goals?: A Sector Perspective of Aid Allocation

Rainer Thiele, Peter Nunnenkamp and Axel Dreher

No DP2007-04, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We analyse the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritized aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Employing Tobit models that combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with various indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries with regard to the MDGs, we show that donors differ in the extent to which their sectoral aid allocation is conducive to achieving major MDGs. Some MDGs, notably the fight against HIV/AIDS, have shaped the allocation of aid.

Keywords: Economic assistance and foreign aid; Education; Millennium Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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