eprintid: 15511
rev_number: 14
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2744
dir: disk0/00/01/55/11
datestamp: 2013-09-16 13:47:24
lastmod: 2015-04-24 11:22:56
status_changed: 2013-09-16 13:47:24
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Schmaljohann, Maya
title: Pretending to be the Good Guy. How to Increase ODA Inflows while Abusing Human Rights 
 
subjects: 330
divisions: 181000
keywords: aid allocation; human rights; UN treaties
abstract: I investigate  the  effect  of  ratification  of different  human  rights  treaties  adopted  by  the United  Nations  General  Assembly  on  Official Development  Assistance  (ODA)  by  donors  of  the OECD  Development  Assistance  Committee  (DAC).  On  average the  ratification  of  an  additional human rights treaty increases total ODA by 6% (around 33.5 million USD) and the ratification of one of the two most important treaties, on torture and civil and political rights, increases total ODA by up to  19% (around  97million  USD).  Additionally  I  show  that countries  with  low  human  rights compliance  can  use treaty  ratification  as  a  substitute  for  actual improvements  in  their  protection  of human  rights. While  ratification  of  the  two  most  important treaties  does  not  increase  ODA  for countries with low levels of respect for human rights, it increases aid commitments for those countries with  the  lowest  respect  for  human  rights  by  almost  42%. This  pattern  does  not  significantly  differ between  the Nordic  donors  and  the  five most  important DAC donors. The  results  become  stronger when taking possible endogeneity of treaty ratification into account.
date: 2013-09
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00015511
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0549
ppn_swb: 1653014253
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-155115
language: eng
bibsort: SCHMALJOHAPRETENDING201309
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0549
pages: 45
citation:   Schmaljohann, Maya  (2013) Pretending to be the Good Guy. How to Increase ODA Inflows while Abusing Human Rights.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15511/1/Schmaljohann_2013_dp549.pdf