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Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance
Wellner, L; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Brad; … - 2022
Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293845
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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019
Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa’s interior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892107
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The Out of Africa Hypothesis of Comparative Economic Development : Common Misconceptions
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2019
The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892135
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China and the World Bank - How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States
Gehring, Kai - 2019
analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861418
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China and the World Bank : How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States
Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart C.; Wong, Melvin H.L - 2019
analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the World Bank and China does not increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014033178
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On the Preferred Creditor Status of Multilateral Development Banks
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023
The loans of the IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are excluded from debt restructuring. This is the result of their preferred creditor status. There are two justifications for the preferred creditor status of MDBs: (a) they give concessional loans, and (b) they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347019
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Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, … - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332994
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China and the World Bank - How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States
Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart C.; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2019
analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141057
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Paying Them to Hate Us : The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2014
Dimant, Eugen - 2020
Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? To answer this question, we collect data on 173 countries between 1968 and 2014. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the global patterns of U.S. military aid, our paper is the first to provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828790