Heinrich, T and Kobayashi, Y orcid.org/0000-0003-3908-1074 (2022) Evaluating explanations for poverty selectivity in foreign aid. Kyklos, 75 (1). pp. 30-47. ISSN 0023-5962
Abstract
Ending global poverty has been at the forefront of the development agenda since the 1970s, but many donors have failed to target their funds toward this goal. Activists have tackled this issue by appealing to donors’ humanitarian motives, but we know little about what explains donors’ decisions on how much to give to the poorest countries. This paper develops the donor motivation and foreign policy approaches and identify donors’ development motives and their budget sizes as potential determinants of poverty selectivity. We evaluate their explanatory power by assessing whether their relationships with selectivity are in the hypothesized directions and generalize beyond a particular dataset. Employing cross-validation and Bayesian Model Averaging, we find few measures of donor motivations provide a generalizable and hypothesized explanation for poverty selectivity. In contrast, donor budget sizes exhibit a relationship that is both hypothesized and externally valid. Our study offers the first systematic analysis of aid selectivity and generates implications for recent approaches to improve the quality of foreign aid and the conventional approach to study foreign aid allocation and donor motives.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Heinrich, T and Kobayashi, Y (2022) Evaluating explanations for poverty selectivity in foreign aid. Kyklos, 75 (1). pp. 30-47. ISSN 0023-5962, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12284. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2021 14:42 |
Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/kykl.12284 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176570 |