Estimating Aid-Allocation Criteria with Panel Data
构建了一个严格的理论模型，利用面板数据估计官方发展援助的分配标准，以澄清援助分配在多大程度上基于受援国需求。
In 1990, the net amount of economic aid, or official development assistance, to all recipients from all multilateral and bilateral sources was about US$62 billion, an amount that exceeded the GDPs of Greece and Portugal. Despite the size of this yearly transfer there has been no rigorous modelling and estimation of the criteria by which it occurs. As a result, there is little agreement about the extent to which ODA is allocated according to the needs of the recipient countries. The purpose of this paper is to develop a rigorous theoretical model of ODA allocation that can be used to provide consistent estimates of the importance of recipient needs.