The Needy Donor: An Empirical Analysis of India's Aid Motives
Andreas Fuchs and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
Published in: World Development 44:110-128, April 2013
Abstract
With the intention of understanding why poor countries provide aid to other developing countries, we analyze aid commitments by India’s Ministry of External Affairs to 125 countries over the 2008-2010 period. Our findings are partially in line with our expectations of the behavior of a “needy” donor. Commercial and political self-interests dominate India’s aid allocation. We find the importance of political interests to be significantly larger for India than for all donors of the Development Assistance Committee. Moreover, countries that are geographically closer are favored, and countries at a similar developmental stage are more likely to enter India’s aid program.
Published article
Working paper (July 2012)
Data set
Presentations at conferences and workshops
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Andreas Fuchs and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
Published in: World Development 44:110-128, April 2013
Abstract
With the intention of understanding why poor countries provide aid to other developing countries, we analyze aid commitments by India’s Ministry of External Affairs to 125 countries over the 2008-2010 period. Our findings are partially in line with our expectations of the behavior of a “needy” donor. Commercial and political self-interests dominate India’s aid allocation. We find the importance of political interests to be significantly larger for India than for all donors of the Development Assistance Committee. Moreover, countries that are geographically closer are favored, and countries at a similar developmental stage are more likely to enter India’s aid program.
Published article
Working paper (July 2012)
Data set
- Commonwealth membership (updated August 2017)
Presentations at conferences and workshops
- Nordic Conference in Development Economics, Gothenburg, Sweden (06/2012)
- Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Diego, USA (04/2012)
- 2nd World Congress of the Public Choice Societies, Miami, USA (03/2012)
- Seminar of the "Verein Freiburger Wirtschaftswissenschaftler e.V.", University of Freiburg, Germany (01/2012)
- Ph.D. Colloquium of the German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn, Germany (12/2011)
- "PEGNet Conference 2011, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany (09/2011)
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