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Nunnenkamp, Peter; Andrés Sosa, Maximiliano; … - 2012

We empirically assess the determinants of India’s FDI outflows across a large sample of host countries in the 1996-2009 period. Based on gravity model specifications, we employ Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood (PPML) estimators. Major findings include: India’s outward FDI is hardly affected...

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Less aid proliferation and more donor coordination? : The wide gap between words and deeds

Aldasoro, Iñaki; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2009

We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....

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Recent patterns of post-conflict aid : did donors help sustain peace?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

Donor reactions to recent settlements of internal conflicts have been highly diverse, in terms of both overall aid and its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor countries. There is no conclusive evidence, however, that the...

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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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Infrastructure and trade : a gravity analysis for major trade categories using a new index of infrastructure

Donaubauer, Julian; Glas, Alexander; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

Making use of considerably improved measures of infrastructure, we assess the impact of infrastructure on bilateral trade for a panel of 37 developed and emerging economies during the period 1995-2011. We find significant and non-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in...

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Sectoral aid priorities : are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer - 2006

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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Assessing the allocation of aid : developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer; Triveño, Luis; … - 2005

measured by the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). If the CPIA is replaced by the Kaufmann index …

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Do multinational enterprises contribute to convergence or divergence? : A disaggregated analysis of US FDI

Mayer-Foulkes, David (contributor); … - 2005

It is a widely held belief that foreign direct investment (FDI) has a positive effect on economic growth. We test this hypothesis by performing convergence regressions derived from a model of endogenous technological change. We estimate the rate of growth in per-capita income, relative to the...

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Melting constants in trade gravity's rainbow

Blank, Sven; Egger, Peter - In: Economics letters 201 (2021), pp. 1-4

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

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - In: Economics letters 115 (2012) 3, pp. 373-375

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