The Political Economy of Aid

Abstract

This panel invites contributions to ongoing debates on what motivates aid giving. Since the late 1970s and early 1980s there are more and more explanations based on political-economic approaches showing that aid is not only given according to criteria of needs or economic development. These approaches have focussed on different alternative explanations such as donor's domestic or international political interests. We invite qualitative and quantitative contribution that seek the refine or refute some of this earlier work. We are interested in contribution from both a donor or recipient country's perspective (or both). Contributions may also address different levels of aggregation or different steps in the long causal chain from the politics of aid giving to its consequences.

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