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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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The political economy of multilateral aid funds
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2016
In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the GDP of Kenya. Interestingly, breaking from the traditional model of bilateral aid, donor countries distributed nearly fifty percent of their aid through multilateral aid funds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452801
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Foreign influence and domestic policy : a survey
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Hauk, Esther - 2019
In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987983
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Foreign aid and domestic absorption
Temple, Jonathan; Van de Sijpe, Nicolas - 2014
We introduce a new "supply-push" instrument for foreign aid, to be used together with an instrumental variable estimator that filters out unobserved common factors. We use this instrument to study the effects of aid on macroeconomic ratios, and especially the ratios of consumption, investment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417985
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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 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794246
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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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Geopolitics, aid and growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2013
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries ́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracyś...
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
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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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