Does the “shaming” of human rights violations influence foreign aid delivery decisions
across OECD donor countries? We examine the effect of shaming, defined as targeted …

The European Union budget is distributed primarily in the form of intergovernmental grants
to sub-state governments, which invest the grants in local projects. Transfers are allocated …

Though industrialized countries are usually the ones indicted when environmental pollution
is discussed, over the few last years the rate of emissions in developing countries has …

As the climate changes, human livelihoods will increasingly be threatened by extreme
weather events. To provide adequate disaster relief, states extensively rely on multilateral …

This paper seeks to bring new insights into the foreign aid allocation behaviour and patterns
of two donors from the group of post-communist EU member countries, namely Poland and …

Using a principal–agent approach, I seek to determine if differences exist between official
US development aid (ODA) and US-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) …

Using a new data set for 41 German non‐governmental organisations (NGOs), we analyse
the allocation of NGO aid across recipient countries in a Tobit regression framework. By …

Fragility continues to present major challenges to achieving sustainable development goals
(SDGs). International aid, particularly the Official Development Assistance (ODA), is a critical …

Until recently, most aid from rich to poor countries was transmitted through official bilateral
and multilateral channels. But the rapid growth in private development aid from foundations …

ABSTRACT According to the World Bank 2017 statistics, the inequalities between rich and
poor countries have increased despite an 80% increase in the official development …