Similar Search Results

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011

This article empirically investigates whether, and in which ways, donors in the Development Assistance Committee respond to transnational terrorist incidents and the onset of the War on Terror through changes in aid effort and aid allocation. First, an analysis of 22 donor countries shows that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220129

US based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: Survival of the Fittest?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Schwörer, Tillmann - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011

The non-distribution constraint of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) would be harder, and financiers as well as recipients could expect more charitable output from them, if less efficient NGOs were squeezed out of international development cooperation. We employ Probit and complementary...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009221546

Rogue Aid? The Determinants of China’s Aid Allocation

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011

Foreign aid from China is often characterized as ‘rogue aid’ that is not guided by recipient need but by China’s national interests alone. However, no econometric study so far confronts this claim with data. We make use of various datasets, covering the 1956-2006 period, to empirically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293831

Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans: The dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving

Davies, Ronald B.; Klasen, Stephan - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2013

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633267

Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do!

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2010

It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518223

Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2010

We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In particular, we analyze whether non-charitable expenditures for administration, management and fundraising depend on the intensity of competition...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008539660

Are ‘New’ Donors Different? Comparing the Allocation of Bilateral Aid between Non-DAC and DAC Donor Countries

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2010

Major DAC donors are widely criticized for weak targeting of aid, selfish aid motives and insufficient coordination. The emergence of an increasing number of new donors may further complicate the coordination of international aid efforts. On the other hand, new donors (many of which were aid...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540624

The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2010

governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … – are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other projects. When aid is given to Security …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540625

Does membership on the UN Security Council influence IMF conditionality?

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2010

We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the … arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to 2008. We find a negative relationship: Security Council members receive … softer for these countries because the major shareholders of the IMF desire influence over the Security Council. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542652

Aid Allocation by German NGOs: Does the Degree of Public Refinancing Matter?

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiel, Susann; Thiele, … - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2010

Using a new dataset for 41 German non-governmental organizations (NGOs), we analyze the allocation of NGO aid across recipient countries in a Tobit regression framework. By identifying for each NGO the degree of public refinancing, we address the largely unresolved issue of whether financial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546788