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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832118
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NGO's and donors' funding : evidence from Uganda
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Isopi, Alessia; Owens, Trudy - 2022
We develop a screening model to analyse the funding allocation criteria of institutional donors towards NGOs. The model shows that when donors care about efficiency, they screen NGOs and concentrate their funding on those that comply. Combining two waves, 2002 and 2008, of a unique survey data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426549
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Local global watchdogs : trade, sourcing and the internationalization of social activism
Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; … - 2021
feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510238
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International trade and stable resolutions of resource disputes
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022
We consider a dynamic setting in which two sovereign states with overlapping ownership claims on a resource/asset first arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both approaches depend on the states' military capacities, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419332
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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 contributions. First, we combine data on civil wars with data on low level conflicts in a new ordinal measure capturing the two-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547801
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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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China and the World Bank : how contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states
Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2019
China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that both aim at stability, but differ in the norms propagated to achieve that. Using fixed effects and IV estimations, we analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104086
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Has the Russian invasion of Ukraine reinforced anti-globalization sentiment in Austria?
Gutmann, Jerg; Pitlik, Hans; Fronaschütz, Andrea - 2022
globalization. We study two waves of representative population surveys conducted in Austria, one right before the Russian invasion … globalization and import dependency as a short-term reaction to economic turbulences and geopolitical upheaval at the onset of war … in Europe. We show that two months after the invasion, anti-globalization sentiment in general has not spread, but that …
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Non-partisan 'get-out-the-vote' efforts and policy outcomes
Kovenock J., Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2009
This paper utilizes a simple model of redistributive politics with voter abstention to analyze the impact of nonpartisan ‘get-out-the-vote’ efforts on policy outcomes. Although such efforts are often promoted on the grounds that they provide the social benefit of increasing participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888103
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Merchants of doubt : corporate political influence when expert credibility is uncertain
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Lyon, Thomas P. - 2016
A key role of science-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is to communicate scientific knowledge to policymakers. However, recent evidence has emerged showing that industry-backed groups often attempt to undermine the credibility of such NGOs and weaken their ability to influence policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557801