Needs-based targeting or favoritism?

• Verfasst von: Öhler, Hannes [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Nunnenkamp, Peter [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Needs-based targeting or favoritism?
• Titelzusatz: the regional allocation of multilateral aid within recipient countries
• Verf.angabe: Hannes Öhler and Peter Nunnenkamp
• E-Jahr: 2014
• Jahr: 02 July 2014
• Umfang: 27 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 24.07.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Kyklos
• Ort Quelle: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 1947
• Jahr Quelle: 2014
• Band/Heft Quelle: 67(2014), 3, Seite 420-446
• ISSN Quelle: 1467-6435
• DOI: doi:10.1111/kykl.12061
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Öhler, Hannes: Needs-based targeting or favoritism?. - 2014
• Sach-SW: Aid allocation
• Sach-SW: within-country targeting
• Sach-SW: favoritism
• Sach-SW: World Bank
• Sach-SW: African Development Bank
• K10plus-PPN: 172550250X

Abstract

The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored. We use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a sample of 27 recipient countries to assess the claim of donors that their aid targets needy population segments. We also assess whether political leaders in these countries direct aid funds to their home region. We do not find that the multilateral institutions take regional needs into account. Instead, favoritism appears to play an important role for location choices, in particular for physical infrastructure projects.