International Charitable Connections: the Growth in Number, and the Countries of Operation, of English and Welsh Charities Working Overseas.
International Charitable Connections: the Growth in Number, and the Countries of Operation, of English and Welsh Charities Working Overseas.
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DOI：
10.1017/s0047279416000076
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发表时间：
2016-07
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2
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Clifford D
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作者：
Clifford D
本文为英格兰和威尔士慈善机构的国际化运作提供了新的经验证据。它回答了现有工作中没有解决的基本问题：有多少慈善机构在海外开展工作，这个数字随着时间的推移发生了怎样的变化？他们在哪些国家开展业务，这些地理模式背后的原因是什么？它利用了一个独特的管理数据集，记录了每个慈善机构在哪个国家开展活动。结果显示，自20世纪90年代中期以来，在海外工作的慈善机构数量大幅增加。它们表明，慈善机构更有可能在与英国有殖民和语言联系的国家发挥作用，而不太可能在高度不稳定或腐败程度较高的国家发挥作用。即使在控制了各国的人口规模和贫困之后，这种相当大的地域不平衡也说明了供应面理论和体制因素对于理解国际志愿活动的重要性。这篇论文还为国际慈善运作提供了一个新的视角：虽然大型发展性慈善机构是家喻户晓的名字，但结果揭示了小规模“草根”注册的慈善活动在多大程度上联系着国际上的人和地方，以及在“发达”和“发展中国家”的背景下的活动程度。
This paper provides new empirical evidence about English and Welsh charities operating internationally. It answers basic questions unaddressed in existing work: how many charities work overseas, and how has this number changed over time? In which countries do they operate, and what underlies these geographical patterns? It makes use of a unique administrative dataset which records every country in which each charity operates. The results show a sizeable increase in the number of charities working overseas since the mid-1990s. They show that charities are much more likely to work in countries with colonial and linguistic ties to the UK, and less likely to work in countries with high levels of instability or corruption. This considerable geographical unevenness, even after controlling for countries’ population size and poverty, illustrates the importance of supply-side theories and of institutional factors to an understanding of international voluntary activity. The paper also serves to provide a new perspective on international charitable operation: while it is the large development charities that are household names, the results reveal the extent of small-scale ‘grassroots’ registered charitable activity that links people and places internationally, and the extent of activity in ‘developed’ as well as ‘developing’ country contexts.