Foreign aid and political-economic change in advanced industrial states: implication for LDCs. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Explores the relationship between specific forms of political-economic change in several industrially advanced democracies and their aid distributions to LDCs. Although several studies have explored the role foreign aid plays in the foreign policy scheme of industrially advanced democracies few studies have considered whether aid flows are also tied to structural forms of political-economic change in the donor countries themselves. Relying on data for 11 countries of the Development Assistance Committee (Austria, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, West Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States) for the years 1971-1977 the study tests three specific models of aid flow to LDCs. By segregating the LDCs into three distinct samples, the present analysis confirms the proposition that for LDCs in general, and especially the wealthier group of LDCs, political and economic changes in the DAC donor nation have significant consequences for the rate of Gross-ODA disbursements.-from Author

published proceedings

  • Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives

author list (cited authors)

  • Robertson, J. D

complete list of authors

  • Robertson, JD

publication date

  • January 1984