Gesture Politics or Real Commitment?: Gender Inequality and the Allocation of Aid

Axel Dreher, Kai Gehring and Stephan Klasen

No wp-2013-079, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education, health, and civil society projects could be affected by gender inequality concerns. In this paper, we investigate whether donors indeed give more aid to countries with larger gender gaps ('need') in education, health, employment, or women's rights, or rather reward improvements in those indicators ('merit').

Keywords: Economic assistance and foreign aid; Econometric models (Economic development); Health expenditures; Macroeconomics; Women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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