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Fueling Conflict? (De)Escalation and Bilateral Aid
Bluhm, Richard - 2016
This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major …-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second, we develop a novel empirical framework. We propose a dynamic ordered probit … aid on conflict by predicting bilateral aid flows based on electoral outcomes of donor countries that are exogenous to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979126
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Aid, terrorism, and foreign direct investment : empirical insight conditioned on corruption control
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2018
This paper examines the effect of foreign aid in the terrorism-FDI nexus while considering the extent of domestic corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 developing countries. The following findings are established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998781
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Foreign direct investment, aid and terrorism : empirical insight conditioned on corruption control
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2015
This study checks the effect of foreign aid on terrorism and FDI, conditioned on domestic levels of corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 countries for the period 1984-2008. The following findings are established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408857
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FDI, aid, terrorism : conditional threshold evidence from developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2015
We investigate how foreign aid dampens the effects of terrorism on FDI using interactive quantile regressions. The empirical evidence is based on 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilateral and multilateral aid variables are used, while terrorism dynamics entail: domestic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312327
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Diversity and Conflict
Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916960
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Is the threat of foreign aid withdrawal an effective deterrent to political oppression? : evidence from 53 African countries
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on political rights, aid volatilities and the post-Berlin Wall period. The findings show that while foreign aid does not have a significant effect on political rights, foreign aid volatilities do mitigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496393
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On foreign aid distortions to governance
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could seriously affect debates in academic and policy making circles. Using the theoretical underpinnings of the celebrated Eubank (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409797
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Aid and Growth. New Evidence Using an Excludable Instrument
Dreher, Axel - 2017
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970832
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Foreign aid, instability and governance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2019
This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996-2010. An autoregressive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998497
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Foreign aid instability and bundled governance dynamics in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
Purpose- With the recent financial crisis and reduction of foreign aid by donor countries, the aid-institutions debate is shifting to how aid instability affects governance in developing countries. We engage the policy debate by assessing the role of foreign aid instability on governance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596858