Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation

August 1, 2012

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Kurt Annen, and Luc Moers. Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

This paper shows that donors that maximize relative aid impact spread their budgets across many recipient countries in a unique Nash equilibrium, explaining aid fragmentation. This equilibrium may be inefficient even without fixed costs, and the inefficiency increases in the equality of donors budgets. The paper presents empirical evidence consistent with theoretical results. These imply that, short of ending donors maximization of relative aid impact, agreements to better coordinate aid allocations are not implementable. Moreover, since policies to increase donor competition in terms of aid effectiveness risk reinforcing relativeness, they may well backfire, as any such reinforcement increases aid fragmentation.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Competition, Financial markets, Foreign aid, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Aid allocation, Aid Effectiveness, Aid Fragmentation, Budget planning and preparation, Competition, Donor competition, Donor Coordination, Donor fragmentation, Donor ranking, Foreign Aid, Global, Poverty reduction, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

37
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Working Paper No. 2012/204
Stock No:

WPIEA2012204
ISBN:

9781475505542
ISSN:

1018-5941

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