Determinants of International Emergency Aid : Humanitarian Need Only?

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.

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Main Authors:	Fink, Guenther, Redaelli, Silvia
Language:	English
Published:	2009-02-01
Subjects:	AID AGENCIES, AID ALLOCATION, AID COORDINATION, AID FLOWS, BANKS, BILATERAL AID, BILATERAL RELATION, BILATERAL RELATIONS, CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY, CIVIL WAR, CLIMATE CHANGE, CRED, DAT DATABASE, DEATH TOLL, DECLARATION, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT AID, DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, DEVELOPMENT BANKS, DEVELOPMENT ISSUES, DISASTER, DISASTER AID, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, DISASTER PREVENTION, DISASTER REDUCTION, DISASTER RELIEF, DISASTER RISK, DISASTER TYPE, DISASTER TYPES, DISCRIMINATION, DROUGHT, DROUGHTS, EARTHQUAKE, EARTHQUAKES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, EMERGENCIES, EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE, EMERGENCY RELIEF, EMERGENCY RESPONSE, EMERGENCY SITUATION, EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, EVACUATION, EXPORTS, FATALITIES, FIRE, FIRES, FLOOD, FLOODS, HEAT WAVES, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMANITARIAN AID, HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, HUMANITARIANISM, HURRICANE, IMPORTS, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, INSURANCE, INSURANCE COMPANIES, INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, INTERNATIONAL AID, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, NATURAL DISASTER, NATURAL DISASTERS, NATURAL HAZARDS, NEGOTIATION, NEGOTIATIONS, NEUTRALITY, PHYSICAL DAMAGE, PRIVATE DONORS, RECONSTRUCTION, RELIEF OPERATIONS, RESPONSE TO DISASTER, SLOW ONSET DISASTERS, SMOKE, STD, TARP, TERRORISM, TSUNAMI, VOLCANO, WAR, WARS, WIND STORM, WIND STORMS, WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS,
Online Access:	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090218082527 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4035
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