1 / 11

Human Rights and Dutch Foreign Aid

Human Rights and Dutch Foreign Aid. Erin Sielaff Kristen Skillman INAF 339. Research Question. Does the Netherlands distribute more foreign aid t o countries with better human rights records ? Yes. The Debate. Multilateral vs. Bilateral Aid? Big vs. Small Donors?

maegan
Download Presentation

Human Rights and Dutch Foreign Aid

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Human Rights and Dutch Foreign Aid Erin Sielaff Kristen Skillman INAF 339

  2. Research Question Does the Netherlands distribute more foreign aid to countries with better human rights records? Yes.

  3. The Debate • Multilateral vs. Bilateral Aid? • Big vs. Small Donors? • Netherlands Foreign Aid? Key Authors:Alesina and Dollar (2000), Baehr (2010), Hoebink (1999), Neumayer (2003), Stokke (2006)

  4. Hypothesis H1: The Netherlands gives more foreign aid to countries with better human rights records.

  5. Data & Methodology • Dutch ODA Data • CIRI Human Rights Dataset Controls: Democracy, GDP per capita, Population, Oil, Communism, Trade, Former Colony Country and Year Fixed Effects

  6. Conclusion Human rights matterin Dutch aid allocation… ...But only empowerment rights

  7. Moving Forward • Collinearity Problem • Other controls? • Breaking down human rights variables

More Related