TY - JOUR
T1 - Proliferation and fragmentation
T2 - uphill struggle of aid effectiveness
AU - Oh, Jinhwan
AU - Kim, Yunjeong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2015/4/3
Y1 - 2015/4/3
N2 - Aid fragmentation is one of the hindrances to aid effectiveness. As a main contributing factor, proliferated aids from the donor side have been pointed out. In this regard, we first examine the main factors for the donors’ proliferation and its links with the recipients’ fragmentation, which have been asked in several studies, but are revisited again with a comprehensive up-to-date data set. We also examine whether a recipient country is indeed going to get worse off through fragmented aid or, more directly, by proliferated aid. The main findings are (1) donors tend to proliferate their aid disbursement as their aid budget increases; (2) the recipients’ fragmentation is mainly due to the donors’ proliferation, and this has been prevalent since the early stage of aid history; (3) non-monotonicity is shown between aid fragmentation and growth, given that economies of scale is dominant in the incipient stage of a recipient country’s growth, but turns out to affect negatively in the long run; (4) therefore, the donors’ proliferation will eventually harm the recipients’ growth.
AB - Aid fragmentation is one of the hindrances to aid effectiveness. As a main contributing factor, proliferated aids from the donor side have been pointed out. In this regard, we first examine the main factors for the donors’ proliferation and its links with the recipients’ fragmentation, which have been asked in several studies, but are revisited again with a comprehensive up-to-date data set. We also examine whether a recipient country is indeed going to get worse off through fragmented aid or, more directly, by proliferated aid. The main findings are (1) donors tend to proliferate their aid disbursement as their aid budget increases; (2) the recipients’ fragmentation is mainly due to the donors’ proliferation, and this has been prevalent since the early stage of aid history; (3) non-monotonicity is shown between aid fragmentation and growth, given that economies of scale is dominant in the incipient stage of a recipient country’s growth, but turns out to affect negatively in the long run; (4) therefore, the donors’ proliferation will eventually harm the recipients’ growth.
KW - aid effectiveness
KW - aid fragmentation
KW - aid proliferation
KW - non-monotonicity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84930757813&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19439342.2014.983537
DO - 10.1080/19439342.2014.983537
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84930757813
SN - 1943-9342
VL - 7
SP - 192
EP - 209
JO - Journal of Development Effectiveness
JF - Journal of Development Effectiveness
IS - 2
ER -