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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723
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Does German development aid promote German exports and German employment? : a sectoral-level analysis
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2013
This paper uses an augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and sectoral exports from Germany to the aid recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run each dollar of German aid is associated with an average increase of 0.83 US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126291
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Foreign aid and recipient countries' exports : does aid promote bilateral trade?
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2010
This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between foreign aid and exports in recipient countries. Most of the theoretical work emphasizes the negative impact of aid on recipient countries' exports primarily due to exchange rate appreciation, disregarding possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340026
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Aid and trade : a donor's perspective
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009
One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time series data for Germany suggests an average return of between US$ 1.04 to US$ 1.50 for each US dollar of aid spent by Germany. Although this is well below previous estimates, the value is robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254238
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Long Live Friendship? The Long-Term Impact of the Soviet Aid on Sino-Russian Trade
Hu, Zhi-an; Li, Jinghong; Nie, Zhuo - 2022
This paper studies the long-term effect of aid on bilateral trade and provides a new mechanism for this effect - aid fosters inter-group affinity. Our empirical setting is the Soviet aid to China during the 1950s, namely the 156 program, when numerous large-scale industrial plants were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013305693
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Networks of military alliances, wars, and international trade
Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - 2014 - Draft: February 2014
We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...
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Arming in the global economy : the importance of trade with enemies and friends
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2019 - Current version: December 10, 2018
We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar … with a third (friendly) country, a move from autarky to trade intensifies conflict between the two adversaries, inducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966909
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Does German development aid promote German exports?
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2008
This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and exports from Germany to the recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run,German aid is associated with an increase in exports of goods that is larger than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291870
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Foreign aid, exports and development in Euromed
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2012
This paper investigates the link between foreign aid and exports between the two shores of the Mediterranean. The main hypothesis is that the Euro-Mediterranean Process should promote not only trade but also stronger links between the European Union (EU) and the Middle East and North Africa...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332690
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Tied aid, trade-facilitating aid or trade-diverting aid?
Johansson, Lars M.; Pettersson, Jan - 2009
Donor aid is often regarded as being informally tied (aid increases donorrecipient exports) and this effect is, in general, interpreted as being harmful to aid recipients. However, in this paper, using a gravity model, we show that aid is also positively associated with recipient-donor exports....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321422