Public Support for Development Aid during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kobayashi, Yoshiharu; Heinrich, Tobias; Bryant, Kristin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3613320

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“…Studies have shown that higher development aid to the education and health sectors helps to improve education and health in recipient countries (e.g., Birchler & Michaelowa, 2016;Chauvet et al, 2009;Dreher et al 2008;Kobayashi et al, 2021;Kotsadam et al 2018;Lewin, 2020) and, hence, enhances human capital, which is essential for ensuring greater productive capacities and economic complexity. Gnangnon (2021b) has shown that Non-AfT flows are associated with an appreciation of the real exchange rate (i.e., the relative price of the non-tradables to tradables), which is likely to discourage exports of goods and services (e.g., Eichengreen & Gupta, 2013), notably, manufactured exports, and hamper export product diversification (e.g., Guzman et al, 2018;Sekkat, 2016;Sekkat & Varoudakis, 2000;Tran et al, 2017).…”

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Effect of Productive Capacities on Economic Complexity: Do Aid for Trade Flows Matter?

Gnangnon

2021

Journal of Economic Integration

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This is the first study to examine the effect of productive capacities on economic complexity and understand whether the Aid for Trade (AfT) flows is important for this effect in recipient countries. The analysis uses a sample of 126 developed and developing countries for 2002-2018 and adopts the two-step system Generalized Method of Moments approach. Results show that strengthening productive capacities enhances economic complexity. Furthermore, productive capacities and total AfT flows are strongly complementary in positively affecting economic complexity, and the degree of complementarity is higher for poor countries than for other AfT-recipient countries. Similarly, productive capacities are strongly complementary with total Non-AfT flows, as well as for total development aid. These findings highlight the need for scaling-up development aid flows, notably AfT flows, in favor of developing countries and poor countries having the lowest levels of productive capacities.

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Effect of Productive Capacities on Economic Complexity: Do Aid for Trade Flows Matter?

Gnangnon

2021

Journal of Economic Integration

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“…Perhaps, such reframing may quell nativists’ dislike for foreign aid. Recent experiments by Heinrich and Kobayashi (2020), Heinrich et al (2018), Kobayashi et al (2021), and Kohno et al (2020) show that highlighting tangible selfish benefits from aid generally makes aid more popular. However, we note that such reframing is unlikely to succeed unless nativists believe that aid is effective at addressing those underlying drivers of migrations (e.g.…”

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“…Many care about the moral consequences of aid policy, suggesting greater support for giving aid to recipients that are economically poorer and that demonstrate greater respect for human rights (Allendoerfer 2017). Others have more instrumental views on foreign aid and are appreciative of the material benefits that aid brings (Heinrich et al 2018; Kobayashi et al 2021), such as easier access to natural resources and greater counter-terrorism cooperation. Whatever purpose foreign aid serves, expectations about the returns to giving aid determine the support, regardless of whether these are moral or material.…”

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Populism and foreign aid

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Kobayashi

Lawson

2021

European Journal of International Relations

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Pundits, development practitioners, and scholars worry that rising populism and international disengagement in developed countries have negative consequences on foreign aid. However, how populism and foreign aid go together is not well understood. This paper provides the first systematic examination of this relationship. We adopt the popular ideational definition of populism, unpack populism into its core “thin” elements, and examine them within a delegation model of aid policy—a prominent framework in the aid literature. In so doing, we identify specific domestic political processes through which the core components of populism may affect aid spending. We argue that increases in one component of populism—anti-elitism—and in nativist sentiments, an associated concept, in a donor country lead to a reduction in aid spending through a public opinion channel. We supply both micro- and macro-evidence for our arguments by fielding surveys in the United States and United Kingdom as well as by analyzing aid spending by a large number of OECD donors. Our findings show that nativism and anti-elitism, rather than populism per se, influence not only individual attitudes toward aid but also actual aid policy and generate important insights into how to address populist challenges to foreign aid. Beyond these, our study contributes to the broader International Relations literature by demonstrating one useful analytical approach to studying populism, nativism, and foreign policy.

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“…The reasoning of such aid lies in the provision of response to the global challenges, not the regional development; and hence, this type of aid is economically grounded. The other interesting idea is to use the crisis (which is a rather permanent condition in the researched economies) as the boost for the further development, just as in case of the COVID-2019 crisis possible positive impact on the African economies [23].…”

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Africa and Technology Exchange: Is Financial Aid Effective for the Development of the Continent?

Rastoropov¹,

Iamalova²,

Sadovnikova³

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Africa, despite continued and substantial financial assistance from more developed countries, has not yet achieved significant economic growth. It can be concluded that the assistance format requires adjustment. As a new information society is being formed, it can be supposed that the transfer of many technologies to African countries can significantly improve their situation. Thus, the authors put forward the hypothesis that in order to boost the development of African countries, the transfer of basic industrial technologies is needed. The major challenge of the article was to create a model, incorporating both economic indicators of growth and the volume of aid to the African countries, as the second parameter is hard to estimate. Within the developed hypothesis, proposals are put forward for the formation of technological convergence specific mechanisms through supranational institutions. The main aim of the article is to confirm the hypothesis, and put forward four schemes for the formation of the technological exchange infrastructure on the continent. In addition to that, the article provides basic directions for the institutional cooperation between the international development institutions. The key contribution of the article is the proof that the international development institutions' activity and their aid don't correlate with the economic development of the African countries, thus they don't have a significant economic influence.

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Public Support for Development Aid during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 13 publications

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Effect of Productive Capacities on Economic Complexity: Do Aid for Trade Flows Matter?

Effect of Productive Capacities on Economic Complexity: Do Aid for Trade Flows Matter?

Populism and foreign aid

Africa and Technology Exchange: Is Financial Aid Effective for the Development of the Continent?

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