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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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Aid in modulating the impact of terrorism on FDI : no positive thresholds, no policy
Asongu, Simplice; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2017
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/10011794983
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Foreign aid, terrorism and growth : conditional evidence from quantile regression
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2018
In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998255
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Gesture politics or real commitment? : gender inequality and the allocation of aid
Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - 2013
Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education, health, and civil society projects could be affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784721
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Aid and violence reduction
Hoeffler, Anke - 2023
armed conflict in 2021. The international development community has identified armed conflict as an impediment to …, homicide, and assault, are vastly more prevalent and far more widely distributed across countries than armed conflict. For some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372880
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The legacies of armed conflict : insights from stayees and returning forced migrants
Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2022
How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … legacies of armed conflict and the differences between those who stayed in their communities of origin during the conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816250
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Frontier rule and conflict
Malik, Muhammad Adeel; Ali Mirza, Rinchan; Rehman, Faiz Ur - 2023
We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …km-by10km grid cell-level data on conflict in a spatial regression discontinuity design framework, we show that areas … conflict management, led to a sharp surge in attacks against state targets in frontier areas. We show that the surge in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014390564
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Conditional linkages between iron ore exports, foreign aid and terrorism
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
We employ interactive quantile regressions to assess conditional linkages between foreign aid, iron ore exports and terrorism from a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. The following main findings are established. First, it is primarily in the countries with the highest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542271
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Trade, aid and terror
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015
This study assesses the role of foreign aid in reducing the hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on trade using a panel of 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive GMM estimations with forward orthogonal deviations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408402