ANDREAS FUCHS
PROFESSOR OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
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Why Donors of Foreign Aid Do Not Coordinate: The Role of Competition for Export Markets and Political Support
Andreas Fuchs, Peter Nunnenkamp and Hannes Öhler

Published in: World Economy  38(2): 255–285, February 2015





Abstract
Development assistance has been criticized for a lack of coordination between aid donors. This paper argues that competition for export markets and political support prevents donor countries from coordinating their aid activities between one another. To test these hypotheses, we perform logit and fractional logit estimations for a large sample of recipient countries and aid activities since the early 1970s. Our empirical results reveal that export competition between donors is a major impediment to aid coordination. Though less conclusive, we also find some evidence that donors’ competition over political support prevents them from coordinating aid activities more closely.

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Working paper (February 2013)
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Presentations at conferences and workshops
  • Conference "Fragmentation or Pluralism? The organisation of development cooperation revisited", German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn, Germany (10/2013)

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