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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
analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104086
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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
development finance projects across 3,097 physical locations committed to Africa over the 2000-2012 period. Our econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295794
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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019
countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …-bust patterns in Southern Africa and insignificant responses in Central and West Africa. Firm-level customs data reveal that even in … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024617
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033099
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A cross-country empirical analysis of international reserves
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Itō, Hiro - 2009
Using data from more than 100 economies for the period of 1975 to 2005, we conduct an extensive empirical analysis of the determinants of international reserve holdings. Four groups of determinants, namely, traditional macro variables, financial variables, institutional variables, and dummy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850507
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Assessing monetary policy in Norway
Andreassen, Harald Magnus; De Grauwe, Paul; Solheim, Haakon - 2001
We evaluate the policy of flexible inflation targeting implemented by the Norges Bank since March 2001. We discuss the reasons why the real interest rates are significantly higher in Norway than in the rest of Europe. Finally we propose some institutional changes that can improve the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408405
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How do institutions affect the impact of natural disasters?
Bos, Jaap W. B.; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Lamers, Martien; … - 2022
In this paper we study how differences in the quality of countries' institutions affect the impact of natural hazards in these countries. To do so, we first build a new data set that allows us to adequately control for countries' development and geological characteristics and, importantly,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473916
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The impact of developing Hispanic-serving institution program on college persistence, completion rates, and student debt
Li, Feng; Chih, Yao-Yu; Gai, Yunwei; MacDonald, Lynn - 2024
The Developing Hispanic-Serving Institution (DHSI) Program is one of the largest federal grant programs that support Hispanic-Serving Institutions. We employ an eleven-year panel dataset of U.S. higher education institutions to implement a difference-in-differences (DID) design, two-way fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075064
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Aid, growth and devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009
This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887528
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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness : do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010
This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966487