The aim of this study is to analyze the current situation of Development Cooperation in the field of Spanish savings banks' Social Work, in order to assess their degree of involvement in a topic increasingly crucial for society and the general public. Findings of the exploratory study reflected...

Se parte de una definición de Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC), en la que la cooperación al desarrollo está en el núcleo duro del concepto mismo de RSC, y se describen los organismos internacionales que han promovido la vinculación entre RSC y cooperación al desarrollo. A...

Even though donor focus on employment has varied through the evolution of international development cooperation, there is nowadays widespread consensus on its overall importance as an overarching development goal. Employment promotion is however a complex task due to different target groups and...

Many non-DAC donors, including the Baltic States, have both growing development assistance programs and valuable transition experiences to share. On the other hand, DAC countries have decades of experience in developing good practices in aid delivery and can support other donors such as the...

The current development agenda envisages a substantial increase in volumes of development assistance along with changes in other policies which affect developing countries, including trade, debt and migration. Successful and sustainable international development cooperation policies and...

Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...

This paper studies influences on private donations in Spain. After surveying economic theory and past empirical findings on charitable behavior, I introduce Spanish microdata from 1992 on giving to humanitarian organizations. Using binary and multinomial logit models, I probe the likelihood of...

A general finding in the empirical literature on charitable giving is that among older individuals, both the probability of giving and the conditional amount of donations decrease with age, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we use data on giving by alumni at an anonymous university to investigate...

There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...