Australian foreign aid

1. Australian foreign aid trellacelawrimore

2. What motivates Australian foreign aid? • Humanitarianism • Political Interests • IMF voting power https://www.civcap.info/?id=84

3. Recipient need and donor interest models • McKinlay and Little • RN • DI

4. The case for rn • AusAID • Poverty in Oceania • Findings for RN • McCawley • Gounder Center for International Earth Science Information Network. Child Malnutrition [map]. Scale not given. “Global Subnational Prevalence of Child Malnutrition, v1.” NASA Earth Data. <http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/povmap-global-subnational-prevalence-child-malnutritions/maps> (6 October 2012).

5. Research supporting di • “Among the most egoistic” (Berthelemy 2006). • Regional bias • Economic interests • Politics

6. ineffective aid • Tied aid (Easterly and Williamson) • Food aid and technological assistance • AusAID rhetoric Pictures from Clip Art

7. initial hypothesis and Testing for rn • If the mean GDPpc in Oceania is not lower than that of all of the other regions in the world, RN is not the only motivating factor in Australia’s aid. *Countries included are only those which receive aid. SOURCE: WDI 2012

8. A background of imf voting blocs • Quotas • Electing executive board members

9. SOURCE: IMF Annual Report, various years

10. Primary hypothesis • Australia channels its aid budget to the countries in its voting block to enlarge their quotas, and thereby its own power in the IMF.

11. DI Variables • IV: Australian Foreign Aid • Main DV: Membership in Australia’s IMF Bloc • Control Variables: • Population • GDPpc • Trade

12. Regression results confirm hypothesis SOURCE: OECD 2012, WDI 2012

13. Further research • Additional control variables • Adverse humanitarian effects • Australia’s interest in the IMF

14. Australia’s foreign aid motivations are… • Not Recipient Need • Donor Interest • Tied to IMF voting power • Indicative of Australia’s international political strategy