Individual and Country-Level Factors Affecting Support for Foreign Aid
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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In recent years donor countries have
committed to dramatic increases in the supply of foreign aid
to developing countries. Meeting and sustaining such
commitments will require sufficient support among donor
country voters and taxpayers. The determinants of public
opinion in donor countries on foreign aid have received
little attention. This paper examines attitudes to foreign
aid with a large, multi-level, cross-national study. It
outlines a theoretical rationale for support for foreign
aid, discussing the importance of both individual factors
and economic and social structures. The theory is tested
with multi-level models, including both individual-level and
country-level variables to predict positive attitudes. Two
datasets are used to measure attitudes in donor countries:
(1) the 1995 World Values Survey has information from
approximately 6,000 individuals in nine countries and asks a
rich battery of questions at the individual-level, and (2)
the 2002 Gallup "Voice of the People" survey asks
fewer questions of individuals but includes 17 donor
countries. Using both surveys combines their distinct
strengths and allows tests of individual and national-level
theories across disparate samples. The results generally
support the predictions that attitudes toward aid are
influenced by religiosity, beliefs about the causes of
poverty, awareness of international affairs, and trust in
people and institutions.
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ADVOCACY GROUPS, AID AGENCIES, AID POLICIES, AID RECIPIENTS, ALLIANCES, ARMED FORCES, BOUNDARIES, CHARITIES, CONFLICT, CONFLICT RESOLUTION, CRISES, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT AID, DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, DEVELOPMENT BANKS, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, DEVELOPMENT ISSUES, DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES, DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, DOMESTIC POLICIES, DONOR COUNTRIES, DONOR COUNTRY, ECONOMIC AID, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC ISSUES, EFFECTIVENESS OF AID, EXPORTS, FEMALE, FOREIGN AID, FOREIGN ASSISTANCE, FOREIGN INVESTMENT, FOREIGN POLICIES, FOREIGN POLICY, FOREIGNERS, FOUNDATIONS, GENDER, GENDER DIFFERENCES, GENDERS, INCLUSION, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL BANK, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INTERNATIONAL DONORS, INTERNATIONALISM, ISOLATIONISM, MEETING, MILITARY AID, MOVEMENT, MULTILATERAL AGENCIES, MULTILATERAL AID, MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS, NATIONS, OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, PUBLIC POLICIES, PUBLIC POLICY, RECIPIENT COUNTRIES, RECIPIENT COUNTRY, RECONSTRUCTION, REFUGEES, SOCIETY, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, WAR, WOMAN, WORLD DEVELOPMENT, WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS, WORTH