Aid allocation by German NGOs

• Titel: Aid allocation by German NGOs
• Titelzusatz: does the degree of public refinancing matter?
• Mitwirkende: Dreher, Axel
• Mitwirkende: Nunnenkamp, Peter
• Mitwirkende: Thiel, Susann
• Mitwirkende: Thiele, Rainer
• Verf.angabe: Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Susann Thiel and Rainer Thiele
• Verlagsort: Zürich
• Verlag: KOF
• Jahr: 2010
• Umfang: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 24 S., 219,86 KB)
• Illustrationen: graph. Darst.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: KOF working papers / KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich ; 247
• ComputerInfo: Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader.
• DOI: doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005974929
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Form-SW: Arbeitspapier
• Form-SW: Graue Literatur
• K10plus-PPN: 64039633X

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. -- NGO aid ; aid allocation ; public refinancing