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@MISC{Bermeo_aidstrategies,
author = {Sarah Blodgett Bermeo},
title = {Aid Strategies of Bilateral Donors∗},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
This paper finds that there has been a significant shift in foreign aid allocation since the end of the Cold War. Comparing panel data from 1984-1988 with 2000-2005 for France, Japan, the UK and US shows a decrease in the importance of traditional strategic variables in determining aid flows. Allocation in the new millennium also appears more heterogeneous, and is consistent with donors shifting toward a policy of strategic development. Disaggregated aid flows are also examined. Immigration is introduced as a new variable in determining aid allocation and is shown to have a significant and substantively important effect, with higher levels of immigration to a donor associated with more aid. ∗I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at Yale University and can be contacted at
