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Rogue aid? : The determinants of China's aid allocation

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas - 2011

Foreign aid from China is often characterized as "rogue aid" that is not guided by recipient need but by China …, covering the 1956-2006 period, to empirically test to which extent political and commercial interests shape China's aid … allocation decisions. We estimate the determinants of China's allocation of project aid, food aid, medical teams and total aid …

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Aid on demand : African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2015

This article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders … results show that current political leaders’ birth regions receive substantially larger financial ows from China than other …

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Can aid buy foreign public support? : Evidence from Chinese development finance

Wellner, Lukas; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 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...

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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries

Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...

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Chinese aid and health at the country and local level

Cruzatti, John; Dreher, Axel; Matzat, Johannes - 2020

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...

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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, Bradley - 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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