Political Leaders, Economic Hardship, and Foreign Aid Allocation

• In Event: The Donor Politics of Foreign Aid

Brief Overview

This paper argues that political leaders with prior experience of economic hardship tend to distribute more development aid to less developed countries than those without such experience.

Authors

• Yooneui Kim, University of Iowa

• Kangwook Han, Jeonbuk National University

• Sung Min Han, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics