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Does conditionality work? : a test for an innovative US aid scheme

Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2011

Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid conditional on the reform promises of recipient countries. However, hardly any empirical evidence exists on whether ex post rewards are effective in inducing reforms. We attempt...

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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

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 …

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Geopolitics, aid and growth

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

́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is …

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The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2018

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

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The Alma Mater effect : does foreign education of political leaders influence foreign policy?

Dreher, Axel; Yu, Shu - 2016

voting coincidence. To test this theory we make use of data on the educational background of 831 leaders and the voting …

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The Alma Mater Effect : does foreign education of political leaders influence foreign policy?

Dreher, Axel - 2016

voting coincidence. To test this theory we make use of data on the educational background of 831 leaders and the voting …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992012

Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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Acting autonomously or mimicking the state and peers? : a panel tobit analysis of financial dependence and aid allocation by Swiss NGOs

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; … - 2009

NGO aid is still widely believed to be superior to official aid (ODA). However, the incentives of NGOs to excel and target aid to the poor and deserving are increasingly disputed. We contribute to the emerging literature on the allocation of NGO aid by performing panel Tobit estimations for...

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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's national interests alone. However, no econometric study so far confronts this claim with data. We make use of various datasets, covering the 1956-2006 period, to empirically test to...

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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...

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