Article: Political influences on foreign aid effort Flashcards
What question the paper aims to answer?
how does the donor’s domestic political and economic environment influence ‘aid effort’?
Results:
Domestic political variables influence aid effort, but only for aid to low income countries and multilaterals →source of aid volatility that might influence recipient growth prospects.
Aid effort to middle income countries unaffected.
Economic ideology appears to matter more for aid to poorer developing countries and multilateral institutions than aid to wealthier developing countries suggesting that aid to richer countries could possibly be more about trade or geopolitics.
Changes in donor level political variables lead to changes in aid effort that differ across particular types of aid.
Hence, governments may have different strategic and economic interests depending on their ideological orientations.
liberal x conservatism defined in terms of
governments ideological orientation may result in different strategic and economic interests on aid
effect not only to amount but also motivation or purpose and continuation of aid
more conservative US governments more aid to trading partners,
more liberal US governments more aid to needy countries. MORE AID IN GENERAL
The balance of evidence suggests a tight relationship between partisan ideology and aid to LDC/OLIC countries and multilateral institutions, but a weak relationship between partisan ideology and aid to LMIC/UMIC countries.
Assumption
Treating country interests as though they are fixed and independent of domestic politics leads to faulty assumptions in attempts to solve endogene- ity problems in the analysis of the relationship between aid and growth.
Party motives were more influential
Than other variables
changes in the measures of economic ideology correlate significantly with changes in aid effort.
Cold War only temporary peek
