• Do people think foreign aid is a legitimate expenditure of taxpayer money? • How much foreign aid do people believe is given, and to whom, in which countries? • How effective do people think aid is in humanitarian crises, or for poverty reduction, enhancing human development or contributing to security? • Do people believe that foreign aid provides value for money? • What purposes do people b...

In all types of debates regardless of topic research findings, investigations, evaluations and media reports regarding aid will find one prominent question, namely whether there is any clear connection between aid and economic growth in countries that have received high amounts of foreign aid. One argument has been that the connection between a high amount of foreign aid and economic growth is ...

What explains variation in public opinion about foreign aid in donor countries? The conventional wisdom points to the importance of values related to the welfare state such as economic ideology. Scholars argue that liberals, who support redistribution at home, also support redistribution abroad in the form of foreign aid. Yet, the conditions under which individuals apply values learned in the d...