Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1516:
Less Aid Proliferation and More Donor Coordination? The Wide Gap between Words and Deeds
Iñaki Aldasoro, Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele
Abstract: We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major
donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and
better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing
the concentration of each donor’s aid on recipient countries and specific
aid sectors. Second, we map overlaps of aid from different donors and over
time to analyze the degree of coordination. Our results point to a wide and
persistent gap between the rhetoric of political declarations and the
donors’ actual aid allocation during the period 1995-2006. Few donors have
specialized on a limited set of recipients and aid sectors, and
coordination has remained elusive
Keywords: aid allocation, sector-specific commitments, Theil index, donor coordination, overlaps; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F35; (follow links to similar papers)
23 pages, April 2009
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