Korea’s Official Development Assistance : An Empirical Study of Selection of Priority Partner Country and Aid Allocation

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-143
Author(s):  
Jin Ah Kim ◽  
Bong Geul Chun
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Official Development Assistance ◽  
Partner Country ◽  
Aid Allocation ◽  
Selection Of

scholarly journals An empirical analysis of the determinants of agricultural official development assistance

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (No. 5) ◽  
pp. 206-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seon-U Ji ◽  
Song Soo Lim
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Official Development Assistance ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Potential Bias ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Selection Of

The aim of this study was to analyse the determining factors of official development assistance (ODA) provided to the agricultural and food sectors. Lack of empirical research on this type of ODA makes this study stand out from the sea of qualitative approaches. By analysing the agricultural sectors and the views of aid recipient countries, this paper provides evidence-based explanations for the aid flows between donor and recipient countries. Using disbursement ODA data covering 141 countries over 2002–2012, we devise and estimate a gravity model. Heckman’s two-step approach is adopted to address a potential bias arising from the selection of aid recipient countries. The estimated results confirm that agricultural aid is mainly governed by the needs of the recipient countries with regard to factors such as undernourishment and food inadequacy rates, depth of food deficits and political circumstances. As expected, the results indicate that food aid is influenced mostly by humanitarian factors.  

Debating ‘visibility’ and its effects on the effective delivery of Official Development Assistance – diagnosis, justification and possibilities

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Vollmer
Keyword(s):  
Development Assistance ◽  
Official Development Assistance ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Partner Country ◽  
Paris Declaration ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
The Impact

Development cooperation has to be visible in some form to ensure domestic political support for Official Development Assistance. This explains the frequent calls for greater visibility at the headquarters level of aid agencies. However, effective development cooperation is not compatible with every form of visibility. Aid practitioners at field level in partner countries report that actions geared toward increasing the effectiveness of development cooperation become more challenging if these actions lack a certain degree of visibility. Whether aid is delivered on or off the budget of the partner country or whether aid programmes are aligned to the partner country’s priorities is linked to the domestic pressure on development partners for visibility in the partner country. This paper analyses the influence of visibility on the implementation of the aid effectiveness agenda. It assesses the impact of visibility on the principles and commitments of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) and the Busan Partnership Agreement for Effective Development Cooperation (2011), and presents parameters of a ‘new’ visibility that is conducive to the agenda.

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