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Determinants of international emergency aid : humanitarian need only? / / Guenther Fink, Silvia Redaelli.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Fink, Guenther.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers ; 4839.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Policy research working paper ; 4839
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disaster relief.
- Natural disasters.
- Other Title:
- Determinants of international emergency aid
- Policy research working paper vol. 4839
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2009]
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- "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. "--World Bank web site.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/8/2009.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1596/1813-9450-4839
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