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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 of aid-receiving countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the political leaders' birth regions and regions populated by the ethnic group to...

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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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This mine is mine! : how minerals fuel conflicts in Africa

Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2015 - First version: July 2014, This version: June 16, 2015

We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at …

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Arming in the global economy : the importance of trade with enemies and friends

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2019 - Current version: December 10, 2018

We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar … with a third (friendly) country, a move from autarky to trade intensifies conflict between the two adversaries, inducing …

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China and the World Bank : how contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states

Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2019

conflict nor any type of citizen protest, on average. Both even reduce outright conflict by governments against civilians …

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The Covid-19 pandemic and European trade flows : evidence from a dynamic panel model

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...

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Medication against conflict

Berlanda, Andrea; Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; … - 2022

The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conﬂict are largely unknown. This …

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Has the Russian invasion of Ukraine reinforced anti-globalization sentiment in Austria?

Gutmann, Jerg; Pitlik, Hans; Fronaschütz, Andrea - 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused disruptions in international trade and highlighted the dependency of small open economies in Europe on imports, especially of energy. These events may have changed Europeans' attitude towards globalization. We study two waves of representative...

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The sustainability of empire in global perspective : the role of international trade patterns

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012

European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...

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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2020

This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...

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