Determinants of International Emergency Aid - Humanitarian Need Only?

By Guenther Fink, Silvia Redaelli. 2009

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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.

Subfields: Development, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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• Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters (2014, unknown): “When deciding on control variables, we rely on benchmark specifications on the determinants of aid, as used most recently in Werker, Ahmed and Cohen (2009) and Fink and Redaelli (2009). Details on the variables and their sources are available in Appendix Table 2.”