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JB Bae, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University

Foreign aid’s hidden benefit: Recipients are more likely to pay the generosity forward

South Korean soldiers oversee the arrival of a batch of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccines donated by the U.S. government on June 5, 2021. Kim Hong-Ji/Getty Images

Foreign aid may not improve how recipients view donor countries – but it can set off a chain of goodwill that spreads far beyond the original act of giving.

That is what a colleague and I found when we studied how South Koreans responded to COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States.

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