Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/28363 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1536
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to assess the relative importance of recipient need, recipient merit and self-interest of donors for various channels of official and private German aid across a large sample of recipient countries in 2005-2007. Our findings strongly underscore the need for a disaggregated analysis of aid allocation. Aid channels differ significantly in the extent to which need and merit are taken into account. Yet, the German case does not reveal unambiguously superior aid channels. Better targeted aid through some channels seems to be conditioned on political support by recipient countries in the UN General Assembly.
Subjects: 
Aid allocation
aid channels
donor motives
Germany
Tobit models
JEL: 
F35
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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