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Recent patterns of post-conflict aid : did donors help sustain peace?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor … to settlement. Furthermore, the sustainability of conflict resolution appears to be unrelated to the amount and … composition of post-conflict aid. These findings, though based on a limited number of post-conflict episodes, underscore concerns …

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Does private aid follow the flag? : an empirical analysis of humanitarian assistance

Fuchs, Andreas; Öhler, Hannes - 2019 - This version: April 2019

Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000-2016 period. We construct a new database...

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Democracy and aid donorship

Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018 - This version: September 2018

Almost half of the world's states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries' likelihood...

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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the effectiveness of its financial aid has improved substantially by targeting aid at poor developing countries pursuing sound economic policies. However, the World Bank's success...

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The effect of foreign aid on migration : global micro evidence from world bank projects

Fuchs, Andreas; Gröger, André; Heidland, Tobias; … - 2023

In response to surging immigration pressure in Europe and the United States, Western policymakers advocate foreign aid as a means to fight the 'root causes' of irregular migration. This article provides the first global evidence of the effects of aid on migration preferences, migration flows,...

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Tracking Chinese aid through China customs : darlings and orphans after the COVID-19 outbreak

Fuchs, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2022

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China's mask and vaccine diplomacy have been widely discussed, but the debate relies on a few stylized data points. This article introduces a systematic way to measure China's foreign aid in almost real-time through official customs records of...

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Assessing the allocation of aid: developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, … - In: The Indian economic journal 54 (2006) 1, pp. 26-51

within the group of multilateral donors. Post-conflict resolution, the third altruistic motive considered in the paper …

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Coping with disasters : two centuries of international official lending

Horn, Sebastian; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2020

Official (government-to-government) lending is much larger than commonly known, often surpassing total private cross-border capital flows, especially during disasters such as wars, financial crises and natural catastrophes. We assemble the first comprehensive long-run dataset of official...

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Is foreign aid concentrated increasingly on needy and deserving recipient countries? : an analysis of Theil indices, 1995-2015

Bickenbach, Frank; Mbelu, Asithandile; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2017

By tracking the changes in different margins of Theil indices during the period 1995-2015, we re-consider the question of whether bilateral and multilateral donors have targeted aid increasingly to particularly needy recipient countries with relatively good governance in order to improve the...

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Bilateral trade and conflict heterogeneity : the impact of conflict on trade revisited

Kamin, Katrin - 2022

vulnerable to the repercussions of conflict. In this context, this paper analyses the relationship between trade and conflict … from a trade perspective: Using data from UCDP and COMTRADE this paper studies the effects of five different conflict types …, this paper finds that the heterogeneity of conflict types and their distinct characteristics matter for the magnitude and …

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