Analysis On The Motivation Of Foreign Aid—Empirical Research And China’s Countermeasures

Foreign aid is an international political and economic relations phenomenon that has existed for a long time, which is a important way of a country’s to getting economic interests. Based on the realism theory foreign aid has become an important means to obtain national interest for donor countries, especially for its own economic interests, the donor countries to provide aid to the recipients to export domestic enterprises goods and services, to open up the outside markets, to pave the way for its foreign direct investment, participate in developing and supplying the energy resources of recipient countries, for example for oil drilling, to guarantee the supply of domestic energy resources, etc. For donor countries, the motivation of the foreign aid of donor countries is the motive power of providing foreign aid, it also determines the recipient countries、the contents and the types of the foreign aid, but also directly related to how to evaluate foreign aid of the donor countries, so this article takes the DAC and emerging donor countries as the main research object to analyze the motivation of the foreign aid, whether as the above statement, in order to obtain the economic interests of the donors.First, this article simply introduces the DAC and emerging donors of the foreign aid development condition, and general summarize the research background,significance and object of the motivation of foreign aid, on the question of researching the motivation of foreign aid, we found that the United States, Germany, France, Britain and Japan have an absolutely important position on the scale of foreign aid, so this article chooses the five countries as the main research object to analyze the motivation of foreign aid of the DAC members(the traditional donors). The India and China play an important role in south-south cooperation, so this article chooses India and China as the main object to analyze the motivation of foreign aid of the emerging countries.Second, through summarizing the research theory, variables, and the empirical method in the foreign literature, this article selects more variables to comprehensively reflect the motivation of foreign aid, and establish the model equation, this article uses the Stata econometric analysis methods to analyze the variables influence to the foreign aid, and find the corresponding to the motivation from the significant variables. From the empirical results can be found, the states’ motivation of foreign aid is not the same, and there are multiple motivations in one state, but the economic motivation is the primary and the main motivation of foreign aid from all states, foreign aid has become a major means of donors to obtain economic benefits.Again, this article simply introduces the definition,development and motivation of foreign aid of emerging donor countries, and analyze the foreign aid of India and China, we found that the two countries have the respective characteristics in motivation of foreign aid, the motivation of India’s foreign aid has regional characteristic, and the motivation of Chinese foreign aid has the time characteristic, but in the contemporary,economic motivation has become the prime motivation of China’s foreign aid.Finally, in view of the economic motivation has becoming the primary motivation of the foreign aid of most donor countries in the contemporary international environment, combined with the characteristics and existing problems in Chinese foreign aid, this article make four suggestions to help China achieve mutual benefit and win-win progress in foreign aid, realize the economic motivation.