Blind Spots on the Map of Aid Allocations: Concentration and Complementarity of International NGO Aid

Dirk-Jan Koch

No RP2007-45, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The budgets of development NGOs have risen dramatically over the last decades. In stark contrast to bilateral donors, the geographic choices of NGOs remain virtually unexplored. Using a new dataset and Lorenz curves, this paper shows that NGOs are very active in some countries and hardly active in others. A clustering of NGO activity takes place in UN-labelled high priority countries, but ample room for improved targeting exists. Aid concentration curves provide insight into whether NGOs target the same countries as bilateral donors.

Keywords: Economic assistance and foreign aid; Economic development; International agencies; Nonprofit organizations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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