@techreport{Metzger2008Does,
abstract = {Having passed the "market test", private aid is claimed by its proponents to be better-targeted than official development assistance (ODA). But empirical evidence is largely lacking. We contribute to closing this gap by performing a case study of Nestl\'{e}, one of the frontrunners among multinational corporations being actively involved in the alleviation of poverty. The targeting of Nestl\'{e}'s aid is compared to that of Swiss ODA and NGO aid, testing for both altruistic and selfish aid motivations. It turns out that Nestl\'{e} favored more democratic but also more corrupt recipient countries. Moreover, Nestl\'{e}'s aid clearly lacks focus in terms of targeting poor countries, which appears to be the downside of the strong link between commercial presence and aid. By contrast, Swiss ODA and NGO aid is more altruistic and poverty-oriented.},
address = {Kiel},
author = {Laura Metzger and Peter Nunnenkamp and Toman Omar Mahmoud},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {M14; F35; 330; Aid allocation; Private aid; Corporate social responsibility; Official development assistance; NGO aid; Millennium Development Goals; Nestl\'{e}; Private Entwicklungshilfe; Multinationales Unternehmen; Entwicklungshilfe; Schweizerisch; Armutspolitik; Millennium Development Goals; Vergleich; Schweiz; Entwicklungsl\"{a}nder},
language = {eng},
number = {1414},
publisher = {Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)},
title = {Does corporate aid really help fighting worldwide poverty? A case study of Nestl\'{e}'s aid allocation},
type = {Kieler Arbeitspapiere},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/4256},
year = {2008}
}
