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Do foreign aid transfers distort incentives and hurt growth? : theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Kalyvitēs, Sarantēs; … - 2004
In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent-seeking as opposed to productive activities. We construct a model of a small growing open economy that distinguishes two effects from foreign transfers: (i) a direct positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402546
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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?
Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017
This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754212
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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630635
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What does network analysis teach us about international environmental cooperation?
Carattini, Stefano; Fankhauser, Samuel; Gao, Jianjian; … - 2021
Over the past 70 years, the number of international environmental agreements (IEAs) has increased substantially, highlighting their prominent role in environmental governance. This paper applies the toolkit of network analysis to identify the network properties of international environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547019
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Debt relief and good governance : new evidence
Freytag, Andreas; Pettersson, Jonatan; Schmied, Julian - 2017
Initiative (MDRI), the World Bank has refrained from this policy, and that debt relief decisions are rather politically driven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611187
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Improving global public goods supply through conditional transfers : the international adaptation transfer riddle
Karen, Pittel; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2013
In order to overcome the underprovision of global public goods various different policy approaches have been proposed. In the climate policy arena, international transfers are frequently seen as an effective means to raise the provision of the global public good ‘climate change mitigation’....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702883
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948233
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Who's afraid of foreign aid? : the donors' perspective
Chong, Alberto (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003395211
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764394
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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