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The Effects of Foreign Aid on Refugee Flows

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2021

causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both total refugee flows to the world and flows to donor countries. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315429

Dreher, Axel - 2013

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries' political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracy's...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079379

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...

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First Impressions : How Leader Changes Affect Bilateral Aid

Rommel, Tobias - 2017

This paper investigates a new mechanism to explain politically induced changes in bilateral aid. We argue that shifts in the foreign policy alignment between a donor and a recipient country following leadership changes induce reallocation of aid. This is due to heightened uncertainty of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967869

The Political Economy of Multilateral Aid Funds

Simon, Jenny - 2016

In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the GDP of Kenya. Interestingly, breaking from the traditional model of bilateral aid, donor countries distributed nearly fifty percent of their aid through multilateral aid funds...

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The Economics of Temporary Migrations

Dustmann, Christian - 2015

Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants' economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028790

Geopolitics, Aid and Growth

Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - CESifo - 2013

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries’ political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracy’s...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671571

Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration

Beine, Michel A. R. - 2012

We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset...

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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2021

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316223

Diasporas

Beine, Michel A. R. - 2009

Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country and living in an another one) affect the size and human-capital structure of current migration flows. Our...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763995

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