Determinants of disaster aid

Donor interest or recipient need

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12733803
AutoresTravis Nelson (University of Wisconsin–Platteville, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume24
Fascículo1
Páginas109-126
Data de publicação2012-01-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Change Peace & Security (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1478-1158 • E-ISSN: 1478-1166
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14781158.2012.641288
OpenAlexW2024073687
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

This article examines the motivations behind the provision of disaster aid. Is this aid provision driven more by ‘humanitarian’ variables such as the severity of the political or natural emergency in the recipient state or ‘political’ variables such as the economic or strategic interest of the donor state? Through a statistical analysis of the aid activity of 22 donor states between 1997 and 2008, it is found that, contrary to much of the literature on humanitarian aid in general, humanitarian variables are consistently significant predictors of disaster aid provision. However, certain political variables are also significant, in that donor states provide more disaster aid to trading partners, former colonies, and military allies

Business · Emergency management · First aid · Geography · Humanitarian aid · Natural disaster · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Variables · Computer Science · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Religion, Society, and Development