Humanitarian crises: What determines the level of emergency assistance? Media coverage, donor interests and the aid business

Disasters

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-126

  Olsen, Gorm Rye ^a   Carstensen, Nils ^b   Høyen, Kristian ^c  

^a Institute for International Health Immunology and Microbiology   (Denmark)

^b DanChurchAid   (Denmark)

^c Secretariat of Danish Economic Councils   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Angola; CCN effect; Donor interests; Humanitarian NGOs; Kosovo; Mozambique; North Korea; Sudan

Indexed keywords

DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN AID; MEDIA ROLE; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0038168695     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7717.00223     Document Type: Article

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