Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63565 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2007/45
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
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. The article concludes that this is the case and that NGOs are thus acting as complements. The drawback of this complementary approach is that it reinforces the donor darling/donor orphan divide. The paper concludes with some research suggestions and preliminary policy implications.
Subjects: 
aid allocation
NGO
aid effectiveness
new geographical economics
donor darling
JEL: 
O20
ISBN: 
9291909882=978-92-9190-988-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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