Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1584:
Aid Allocation by German NGOs: Does the Degree of Public Refinancing Matter?
Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Susann Thiel and Rainer Thiele
Abstract: Using a new dataset for 41 German non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), we analyze the allocation of NGO aid across recipient
countries in a Tobit regression framework. By identifying for each NGO the
degree of public refinancing, we address the largely unresolved issue of
whether financial dependence on the government impairs the targeting of NGO
aid. It turns out that German NGOs are more active in poorer countries,
while they do not complement official aid by working under difficult local
conditions. Beyond a certain threshold, rising financial dependence weakens
their poverty orientation and provides an incentive to engage in “easier”
environments. In addition, we find that the NGOs follow the state as well
as NGO peers when allocating aid. This herding behavior is, however, hardly
affected by the degree of public refinancing
Keywords: NGO aid, aid allocation, public refinancing; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F35; (follow links to similar papers)
25 pages, January 2010
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