Vanessa Craige and Mariana Jurado.  How does membership on the United Nation’s Human Rights Council affect the distribution of foreign aid?

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Vanessa Craige and Mariana Jurado

 How does membership on the United Nation’s Human Rights Council affect the distribution of foreign aid?

 Countries that serve on the Human Rights Council are more likely to receive foreign aid Human Rights Council Logo

Membership on HRC Foreign Aid Received

 Voeten  Werker  Alessina and Dollar  OECD Data  Hug and Lukács

 Nigeria (1967)  Africa’s leading oil exporter  2 nd largest contributor of military troops for UN peacekeeping missions  Chairman of UN Special Committee against South African apartheid  Egypt (1967)  Strategic location (Suez Canal)  Leading non-OPEC member oil producer in Africa  South Africa (1997)  Largest economy (in terms of GDP) in Africa  Greatest energy consumption in Africa

 7400 observations, 573 variables  132 countries from Independent Variable Dependent Variable Foreign Aid Received Membership on the Human Rights Council

No correlation!

 How do nations get onto the Council?