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Why Donors of Foreign Aid Do Not Coordinate: The Role of Competition for Export Markets and Political Support
Author(s) -
Fuchs Andreas,
Nunnenkamp Peter,
Öhler Hannes
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the world economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1467-9701
pISSN - 0378-5920
DOI - 10.1111/twec.12213
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , logit , politics , economics , sample (material) , logistic regression , international economics , international trade , political science , econometrics , medicine , ecology , chemistry , chromatography , law , biology
Abstract Development assistance has been criticised for a lack of coordination between aid donors. This paper argues that competition for export markets and political support prevents donor countries from coordinating their aid activities between one another. To test these hypotheses, we perform logit and fractional logit estimations for a large sample of recipient countries and aid activities since the early 1970s. Our empirical results reveal that export competition between donors is a major impediment to aid coordination. Although less conclusive, we also find some evidence that donors' competition over political support prevents them from coordinating aid activities more closely.