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Does Foreign Aid Mitigate the Adverse Effect of Expropriation Risk on Foreign Direct Investment?
Asiedu, Elizabeth - 2009
We construct a model of FDI, risk and aid, where a country loses access to FDI and aid if the country expropriates FDI. We show that: (i) The threat of expropriation leads to under-investment; (ii) The optimal level of FDI decreases as the risk of expropriation rises; and (iii) Under certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718871
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Politics, policies, and the effectiveness of foreign aid in fragile states
Ocran, Matthew Kofi - 2023
effectiveness in fragile states. Using data from 2002 to 2020, this paper examines the effects of education aid and health aid on … education outcomes and health outcomes in fragile states. It uses the Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond system generalized method of … moments estimator to examine the effect of health aid and education aid on maternal mortality and primary school completion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247656
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On the Impact of Foreign Aid in Education on Growth : How Relevant is the Heterogeneity of Aid Flows and the Heterogeneity of Aid Recipients?
Asiedu, Elizabeth; Nandwa, Boaz - 2007
This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth. We take into consideration the … and higher education, and run separate regressions for low income and middle income countries. We find that the effect of … flows as well as the heterogeneity of recipient countries when analyzing the effect of aid on growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051214
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Does Foreign Aid Mitigate the Adverse Effect of Expropriation Risk on Foreign Direct Investment?
Asiedu, Elizabeth; Jin, Yi; Nandwa, Boaz - Department of Economics, University of Kansas - 2009
We construct a model of FDI, risk and aid, where a country loses access to FDI and aid if the country expropriates FDI. We show that: (i) The threat of expropri- ation leads to under-investment; (ii) The optimal level of FDI decreases as the risk of expropriation rises; and (iii) Under certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030157
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Does India use development finance to compete with China? : a subnational analysis
Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2022
China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819334
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Does India use development finance to compete with China? : a subnational analysis
Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2021
China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial in uence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian government-financed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546236
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Too many cooks in the kitchen? : the division of financing in World Bank projects and project performance
Winters, Matthew S. - 2019
The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978531
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Does India use development finance to compete with China? : a subnational analysis
Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2021
China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012543621
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Can HIPC Reduce Poverty in Tanzania?
Danielson, Anders - 2001
While growth has increased in Tanzania during the past five or six years, it is still too low to have a visible impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208421
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Can HIPC Reduce Poverty in Tanzania?
Danielson, Anders - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2001
While growth has increased in Tanzania during the past five or six years, it is still too low to have a visible impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771062