A Paradox of Redistribution in International Aid? The Determinants of Poverty-Oriented Development Assistance

Thilo Bodenstein, Achim Kemmerling

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Donors differ in the amount of official development assistance dedicated to poverty reduction. We investigate the causes of variation over time and donors by employing both a regression approach with aggregate data on bilateral aid and two short country studies on Germany and the United Kingdom. We find that there is a trade-off between the total amount of money given, and the amount of money given to poor countries. The trade-off is similar to the paradox of redistribution of targeting vs. redistribution in rich welfare states. Case-study evidence illustrates how countries have managed this tradeoff.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)359-369
Number of pages11
JournalWorld Development
Volume76
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2015

Keywords

  • Bilateral aid
  • Official development assistance
  • Political economy
  • Poverty reduction

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