scholarly journals Development and Climate Aid to Africa: Comparing Aid Allocation Models for Different Aid Flows

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-267
Author(s):  
Florian Weiler ◽  
Franklins A. Sanubi
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Aid Allocation ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
African Context ◽  
Recipient Need ◽  
Allocation Decisions ◽  
Donor Interest

This article examines the role different aid allocation models play not only for conventional development aid but also for two new financial flows, adaptation and mitigation aid. We first test the three models proposed in the literature – recipient need, recipient merit, and donor interests – using the latest available aid data and compare our results with findings of older studies on Africa, and with studies on aid allocation on a global scale. We find that the recipient merit model in more recent years no longer plays a role for development aid allocation in Africa, in line with findings reported globally. In contrast to such global studies, the logic of the donor interest model does not seem to dominate over the recipient need model in the African context, as both are of equal importance for aid allocation decisions. Finally, additionality seems to play a lesser role in Africa than globally.

scholarly journals Donor’s Motivation towards Providing Aid for Sustainable Initiatives: An Analysis of the Global Scenario

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zareena Begum Irfan ◽  
Srihitha Baswapoor
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Allocative Efficiency ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Sustainable Production ◽  
Fragile States ◽  
Aid Allocation ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Allocation Decisions

Abstract A substantial number of studies on development aid have explored the reasons for donor’s aid allocation decisions, but very few exist for the Sustainable Production and Consumption (SP&C) sector. This fails to provide evidence to policymakers to evaluate regarding inquiries about their allocative efficiency, equal allocation & rhetoric with regard to international commitment of Sustainable Production and Consumption. This study examines donors’ motivations to provide aid for the sustainable initiatives in general and sustainable production and consumption sector in particular using 35 donor and receptor countries worldwide between the time period 1992 and 2016. By examining four rational choice models, the results reveal that donors take into consideration their own self-interests as well as they cater to the recipients’ needs for allocation of aid. The study also finds that, more aid is given to countries with good governance capabilities and thus do not prioritize fragile states.

Keeping Friends Close, But Enemies Closer: Foreign Aid Responses to Natural Disasters

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Cindy Cheng ◽  
Shahryar Minhas
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Aid Allocation ◽  
Exogenous Shock ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Allocation Decisions ◽  
Strategic Interest

If foreign aid is provided primarily for strategic reasons, as much of the field finds, how can donor generosity following natural disasters be explained? This article addresses this puzzle by building on the literature in three ways. First, it differentiates between three major types of aid: humanitarian, civil society and development. Second, it demonstrates that natural disasters act as an exogenous shock to the strategic calculus that donor countries undertake when making foreign aid allocation decisions. Specifically, the authors argue that donor countries use natural disasters as opportunities to exert influence on strategic opponents through the allocation of humanitarian and civil society aid. However, donors still reserve development aid for strategic allies irrespective of the incidence of natural disasters. Third, the findings are substantiated using a new measure of strategic interest that accounts for the indirect ties states share and the multiple dimensions upon which they interact.

Trafficking

2018 ◽  
pp. 344-358
Author(s):  
Paul Amar
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Global History ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Forms Of Violence

This chapter offers a global history, as well as cultural, legal, and political–economic analysis, of “trafficking,” a set of relationships and processes often constituted as the dark mirror of globalization. First, the chapter traces how the term “trafficking” emerged. Second, it examines the evolution of “trafficking” in the context of “drug wars,” from the imperial Opium Wars in China in the early nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century “narco” battlegrounds of Mexico. Third, it surveys how global studies-related research has developed critical lenses for analyzing the politics of “sex trafficking” and “human trafficking.” Finally, it examines the term “trafficker” as selectively deployed along racial and social lines in ways that produce obscuring pseudo-analyses of the violence of global capitalism that preserve the impunity of certain powerful actors, create monstrous misrepresentations of globalizing forms of violence, and stir moral and racial panics on a global scale.

scholarly journals The Impact of Development Aid on the International Migrations in the African, Caribbean, and Pacifi c Group of States

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Gregl ◽  
Klavdij Logožar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Donor Side ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Development aid, one of the most important mechanisms for the redistribution of global wealth, represents financial flows that have economic growth and social improvement as their main objective. It has also frequently been described as an instrument which is able to diminish international migrations and is used by several developed countries. Recently, much empirical evidence and several contributors have argued that connection and set out other grounds. This paper explores the interaction between development aid and migrations from developing to developed countries. We want to determine, if the amount of development aid has any impact on migrations from African, Caribbean, and the Pacific Group of States. Our results show that development aid does not have a direct effect on migrations and therefore, in terms of international migrations, is not effective. Moreover, we will argue that the donor side should use different policies and other mechanisms to manage migrations from those countries

scholarly journals Aid, Governance and Public Finance Fraud: Evidence from Angola

Politeja ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6(69)) ◽  
pp. 19-50
Author(s):  
Weronika J. Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Political Corruption ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the process of public finance fraud leading to unjust enrichment of ruling elites in Angola, a resource-rich, yet ironically povertytrapped country, owing to decades of rule of José Eduardo dos Santos. It analyses the phenomenon of political corruption in the Angolan context, translating into mismanagement of public revenues coming from natural resources as a means of attaining private economic benefits and consolidating power. Moreover, by examining cross-border inter-company networks aimed at concealing public assets behind front companies, the author attempts to establish a connection between corruption and illicit financial flows. Ultimately, since political corruption is intrinsically linked to governance, the article looks at the impact of the latter on social development as well as on the effectiveness of development aid granted to Angola. It was written based on secondary resources including existing literature and material evidence. Its findings and conclusions correspond with the overall theory postulated by the academic community, maintaining that natural resources and aid have negative impact on governance, institutional accountability, and in consequence on human development, especially in countries characterised by despotic rule.

scholarly journals From Monterrey to Addis Ababa and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Orliange ◽  
Ana Flávia Granja Barros-Platiau
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
National Development ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Development Banks

How did the global framework for financing sustainable development evolve in the past ten years? We argue that its evolution is deeply connected to multilateral initiatives such as the Monterrey consensus,the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. Therefore, the year 2015 may be considered as a landmark. In this vein, we identified five keychanges that affect the global framework for financing development worldwide, showing how traditional international cooperation mechanisms coexist with new ones. They are discussed in the followingorder: the evolution of global development agendas; systemic power relations and financial flows; the institutional entrepreneurship of emerging powers; the increased role of development banks; and from official development aid (ODA) to international public finance. Under the United Nations auspices or not, middle-income countries started to play a bigger role in financing mechanisms. Likewise, some national development banks became more important and started to act more closely under the International Development Finance Club (IDFC) auspices. Brazil, Colombia and South Africa are mentioned as cases for future research.

Bilateral Aid Allocation for International Development: Impact of the Financial Crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-121
Author(s):  
Elena Balter ◽  
Aleksandra Morozkina
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
International Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
External Financing ◽  
Bilateral Aid ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Allocation Decisions

This article examines the impact of financial crisis of 2008-2009 on allocation of development aid. Using OECD data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocation for international development by key donor countries, authors test three hypotheses: first, general impact of crisis on ODA allocation; second, impact of crisis on three recipient income groups; third, impact of crisis on relative importance of analyzed factors for ODA allocation decisions. The results show that general impact of crisis on ODA volumes was negative, although donors preferred to increase aid to low-income countries. Impact of factors describing economic situation in donor countries (public debt level, government expenditures and donor growth) increased after crisis. Donor countries might make use of these results to increase efficiency of their development assistance strategies, whereas recipient countries may exploit these results in order to attract more external financing for development.

Chinese development aid to Asia: Size and motives

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoon Ah Oh
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Energy Transport ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Territorial Dispute ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Chinese Official

This research note empirically examines China’s development assistance to Asia, a region critical to China’s geostrategic ambition, from 2000 to 2014. It uses AidData’s Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset, one of the most reliable publicly available data sources on Chinese aid, which systematically collects and classifies different types of China’s official development finance. It is found that, despite a recent surge, China’s development assistance to Asia remains highly limited compared to that of Japan, Asia’s top donor, and that the economic sectors of energy, transport, and mining dominate financial flows. Econometric analysis results suggest that China’s aid allocation in Asia is influenced by its export relations, but, more importantly, that foreign policy considerations do not play a significant role, which is in contrast to the findings of recent work on Chinese aid to Africa. The results suggest that better measures may be needed to properly capture China’s strategic interests in Asia, including its involvement in the territorial dispute in the South China Sea.

Development Assistance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pieth
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
International Financial Institutions ◽  
Multilateral Development Banks ◽  
Flow Of Funds ◽  
Key Players ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Donor Interest

Amongst the key players in combatting corruption are the institutions promoting development assistance, the International Financial Institutions (or Multilateral Development Banks, MDBs) and the bilateral development aid agencies. This chapter questions the effectiveness of development assistance, particularly the autocratic states’ tolerating embezzlement. That discussion also touches on the logic of development assistance and describes donor interest. The chapter then turns to the Oil-for-Food Programme, describing its planned distribution of oil proceeds, and then notes what went wrong, including the topic of the impact of oil surcharges and humanitarian contract kickbacks on the flow of funds. It concludes with a discussion of the contributions of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) toward improving aid effectiveness.

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