Foreign aid allocation from a network perspective: The effect of global ties
Foreign aid allocation from a network perspective: The effect of global ties
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.09.011
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发表时间：
2017-03-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Swiss, Liam
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作者：
Swiss, Liam
本文考察了全球层面对外援助分配的竞争性解释，并提出了一种从制度主义角度理解援助的新方法。本文利用1975年至2006年期间各国之间所有官方双边援助关系的网络数据以及受援国与世界社会关系的数据，为全球外援的分配提供了另一种解释。对117个发展中国家的面板样本的固定效应负二项回归模型表明，以非政府成员资格和条约批准的形式与世界社会的全球联系是全球外援网络中受援国网络中心地位的重要决定因素。与世界社会规范和组织保持较高程度的遵守和联系的国家显示出与富裕捐助国建立越来越多的援助关系的受益者。研究结果还表明，先前基于利他主义或现实主义动机的援助分配解释不足以解释近年来全球范围内的援助分配模式。(C) 2016 Elsevier Inc.版权所有。
This article examines competing explanations for foreign aid allocation on the global level and argues for a new approach to understanding aid from an institutionalist perspective. Using network data on all official bilateral aid relationships between countries in the period from 1975 through 2006 and data on recipient country ties to world society, the article offers an alternative explanation for the allocation of global foreign aid. Fixed effects negative binomial regression models on a panel sample of 117 developing countries reveal that global ties to world society in the form of non-governmental memberships and treaty ratifications are strong determinants of the network centrality of recipient countries in the global foreign aid network. Countries with a higher level of adherence and connection to world society norms and organizations are shown to be the beneficiaries of an increased number of aid relationships with wealthy donor countries. The findings also suggest that prior explanations of aid allocation grounded in altruist or realist motivations are insufficient to account for the patterns of aid allocation seen globally in recent years. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.