Determinants of international emergency aid - humanitarian need only ?
By: Guenther Fink, Silvia Redaelli.
Contributors: Redaelli, Silvia.; World Bank.
Series: Policy research working paper -- 4839; Policy research working papers (Online) -- 4839.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Natural disasters; Disaster relief
Description: "The authors use an original data set covering more than 400 recent natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid.  Although humanitarian need is a major determinant of emergency relief payments, the results imply that political and strategic factors play a crucial role in the emergency aid allocation.  On average, donor governments favor smaller, geographically closer, and oil exporting countries, and display significant biases in favor of politically less aligned countries as well as toward their former colonies.  The authors also test and reject the independence of donors' aid decisions, finding strong evidence for bandwagon effects in humanitarian assistance. "--World Bank web site.
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