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.

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 Spontaneous Variety-Seeking Meal Choice in Business Canteens Impedes Sustainable Production

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 746
Author(s):  
Pascal Ohlhausen ◽  
Nina Langen
Keyword(s):  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Sustainable Production ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Variety Seeking ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Development Goals

Sustainable meal choices in the out-of-home catering market are essential to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals. This study investigated consumers’ acceptance of different features that help service providers to work more sustainably. For this purpose, data of a choice experiment and a supporting online questionnaire were analyzed using latent class analysis (LCA) and the data of n = 373 employees. Examined attributes in the choice experiment were menu variety, menu type, ordering system, ingredients and price. LCA led to four consumer segments: variety seekers (27.6%), spontaneous decisionmakers—vegetarian (25.7%), spontaneous decisionmakers—meat (24.1%) and vegetarians/vegans (22.6%). Results showed that consumers in all four segments expected to have the choice between different menus in company canteens. Moreover, they preferred spontaneous choice to preordering. Both preferences hamper sustainable production and consumption in the catering sector.

POLITIK KEKERABATAN DAN PERWUJUDAN GOOD GOVERNANCE (STUDI KASUS: TABANAN)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Komang Adi Sastra Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
State Structure ◽  
Deep State ◽  
Historical Institution

Studi ini merupakan analisis neo-institusionalisme terhadap permasalahan politik dinasti dalam kaitannya dengan perwujudan good governance di Kabupaten Tabanan. Sebagaimana diketahui bahwa pasca reformasi, Tabanan dipimpin oleh satu kelompok keluarga yang sama. Dengan berfokus pada sektor pelayanan kesehatan, studi ini akan melihat seberapa jauh politik dinasti memberi dampak terhadap sektor kebijakan publik dan perwujudan good governance. Secara umum, kebijakan pelayanan kesehatan yang ditempuh oleh pemerintah Kabupaten Tabanan adalah kebijakan non-populis. Pemkab  Tabanan lebih memilih membangun rumah sakit berstandar internasional dibandingkan dengan menyediakan layanan kesehatan gratis bagi warga miskin. Selama ini studi mengenai politik dinasti dan pengaruhnya terhadap sektor kebijakan publik di Tabanan dilihat sebagai permasalahan politis semata tanpa melihat kepada persoalan deep state structure, yakni fungsi normatif dan budaya di dalamnya. Studi ini menemukan bahwa terdapat pertentangan antara sociological instution, historical institution dengan rational choice institution dibalik kukuhnya politik dinasti dan pergumulan dalam mewujudkan good governance di Kabupaten Tabanan.  Kata kunci: Politik dinasti, good governance, neo-instutionalisme, kebijakan publik, Kabupaten Tabanan.

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