Compete or Coordinate? Aid Fragmentation and Lead Donorship

摘要: Donor proliferation and the fragmentation of aid delivery is an important problem besetting foreign policy. Increased donor coordination widely seen as a fix to this problem. This article explores theoretically empirically collective action problems incentives that donors face when coordinating their actions, based on distinction between private public goods properties aid. I introduce concept lead donorship, develop measure accounts for exclusive long-lasting ties recipient country, show donorship in long-term decline. test my theory combining spatial autoregressive (SAR) models, nonparametric model discrimination techniques, data channels. recover evidence collusion provision presence donor, lack competition absence donor.