The choice among aid donors: The effects of multilateral vs. bilateral aid on recipient behavioral support
The choice among aid donors: The effects of multilateral vs. bilateral aid on recipient behavioral support
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援助捐助者的选择：多边与双边援助对受援者行为支持的影响
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发表时间：
2017
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通讯作者：
D. Nielson
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作者：
Michael G. Findley;H. Milner;D. Nielson
研究对外援助的学者在多边援助是否比双边援助更有利于促进发展的问题上存在分歧，但几乎所有学者都主要基于高度汇总的跨国时间序列数据。我们从外国援助直接影响到的人：受援国公民和精英阶层的角度，对这一问题进行了实验性的研究。因此，我们报告了对3000多名乌干达公民和300多名乌干达议会成员的行为结果的调查实验结果。尽管有大量文献表明存在差异，但调查结果总体上显示，公民和精英对这两种援助的偏好和行为几乎没有实质性差异。尽管没有出现强烈的分歧模式，但有限的证据表明，公众对多边机构表现出更大的信任，大众和精英都认为多边援助更加透明。总体而言，这些无效的结果提供了一个不断扩大的文献，它越来越清楚地表明多边援助和双边援助之间的区别。然而，至少在受援国的心目中，多边和双边援助实际上可能并没有太大的不同。这与文献中指出的援助组织有很大的重叠，并哀叹它们没有更多的专门知识是一致的。我们的结果提出了一个问题：如果多边和双边援助捐赠者实际上都做了同样的事情，为什么他们都要这样做？
Scholars studying foreign assistance differ over whether multilateral aid is preferable to bilateral aid for promoting development, but nearly all build their cases primarily on highly aggregated cross-national time-series data. We investigate this topic experimentally from the perspective of those whom the foreign aid directly affects: recipient citizens and elites. We thus report results of a survey experiment with behavioral outcomes on more than 3000 Ugandan citizens and over 300 members of Uganda’s Parliament. In spite of a large literature suggesting differences, the findings generally reveal few substantive differences in citizens’ and elites’ preferences and behavior toward the two types of aid. While no strong pattern of differences emerges, limited evidence suggests that the public evinces greater trust in multilateral institutions, and both masses and elites feel that multilateral aid is more transparent. Overall, these null results inform an ever-expanding literature, which is increasingly articulating distinctions between multilateral and bilateral aid. At least in the minds of the recipients, however, multilateral and bilateral aid may not in fact be all that different. This accords with the literature noting the strong overlap in aid organizations and bemoaning the fact that they do not specialize more. Our results raise the question about why have both multilateral and bilateral aid donors if they in effect do the same thing.
DOI：
10.1111/caje.12166
发表时间：
2015-08
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ERN: Financial Markets
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作者：
A. Dreher;A. Fuchs
通讯作者：
A. Dreher;A. Fuchs