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Fueling conflict? : (de)escalation and bilateral aid
Bluhm, Richard; Gassebner, Martin; Langlotz, Sarah; … - 2016
This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major …-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second, we develop a novel empirical framework. We propose a dynamic ordered probit … aid on conflict by predicting bilateral aid flows based on electoral outcomes of donor countries that are exogenous to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547801
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Aid and growth : new evidence using an excludable instrument
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of 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 fractionalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343084
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Does development aid increase military expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539046
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Donor ideology and types of foreign aid
Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960]2009 and distinguish between multilateral and bilateral aid, grants and loans, recipient characteristics such as income and political institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764976
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Tax sparing, FDI, and foreign aid : evidence from territorial tax reforms
Azémar, Céline; Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2016
The governments of many developing countries seek to attract inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) through the use of tax incentives for multinational corporations (MNCs). The effectiveness of these tax incentives depends crucially on MNCs' residence country tax regime, especially where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457988
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226698
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The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2018
This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794246
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The impact of food prices on conflict revisited
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2019
Studies that examine the impact of food prices on conflict usually assume that (all) changes in international food … commodity prices, we show that this assumption could seriously distort estimations of the impact on conflict in African regions …. Specifically, we show that increases in food prices that are caused by harvest shocks outside Africa raise conflict significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105564
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Harnessing windfall revenues : optimal policies for resource-rich developing economies
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Venables, Anthony - 2009
A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813611
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Of donor coordination, free-riding, darlings, and orphans : the dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving
Davies, Ronald B.; Klasen, Stephan - 2013
Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724012