Can donors prevent aid misallocations? Evidence from Chinese and World Bank aid

IF 5.4 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES World Development Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106811
Pierre André , Paul Maarek , Fatoumata Tapo
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We estimate the extent to which international aid projects are subject to favoritism using differences in differences and RDD estimates based on presidential transition dates. We compare two different sources of aid, China and the World Bank, and two different types of favoritism based on the president’s region of birth or ethnic group. Consistent with the literature, we find that Chinese aid is massively targeted to the region of birth of new presidents. However, we also find evidence of a less visible and less intense form of favoritism in World Bank aid: it targets areas that are co-ethnic with a new president, without following major regional administrative boundaries. This is consistent with a better control of the World Bank aid. Moreover, the political economy of World Bank aid favoritism appears to be more complex: World Bank aid favoritism is more intense in dictatorships, when Chinese aid is more abundant, and in countries that have historically received more World Bank aid.
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捐助方能否防止援助分配不当?中国和世界银行援助的证据
我们利用差异和基于总统交接日期的 RDD 估计值来估算国际援助项目受到偏袒的程度。我们比较了中国和世界银行这两种不同的援助来源,以及基于总统出生地区或族群的两种不同类型的偏袒。与文献一致,我们发现中国的援助主要针对新总统的出生地。然而,我们也发现了世界银行援助中一种不那么明显、也不那么强烈的偏袒形式:它针对的是与新总统同族的地区,而不遵循主要的地区行政边界。这与更好地控制世界银行的援助是一致的。此外,世界银行援助偏袒的政治经济学似乎更为复杂:在独裁国家、中国援助更多的国家以及历史上接受世界银行援助更多的国家,世界银行援助偏袒更为强烈。
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World Development
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期刊介绍: World Development is a multi-disciplinary monthly journal of development studies. It seeks to explore ways of improving standards of living, and the human condition generally, by examining potential solutions to problems such as: poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, disease, lack of shelter, environmental degradation, inadequate scientific and technological resources, trade and payments imbalances, international debt, gender and ethnic discrimination, militarism and civil conflict, and lack of popular participation in economic and political life. Contributions offer constructive ideas and analysis, and highlight the lessons to be learned from the experiences of different nations, societies, and economies.
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