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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
favoritism in the allocation of Chinese aid towards the home regions of recipient country leaders reduce its effectiveness. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033099
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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226698
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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
This article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders … development finance projects across 3,097 physical locations committed to Africa over the 2000-2012 period. Our econometric … results show that current political leaders’ birth regions receive substantially larger financial ows from China than other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295794
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Can aid buy foreign public support? : Evidence from Chinese development finance
Wellner, Lukas; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2022
Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167192
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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948233
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343084
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Geopolitics, aid and growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2013
aid has been granted for political reasons. We derive two conclusions from this. First, short-term political favoritism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764394
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Wedded to prosperity? : Informal influence and regional favoritism
Bomprezzi, Pietro; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; … - 2024
aid from European donors, the United States, and China. We find that more aid goes to spousal regions prior to elections … and that developmental outcomes deteriorate rather than improve as a consequence. For Western aid but not for China, these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014485639
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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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Foreign aid in areas of limited statehood
Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin; Ziaja, Sebastian - 2017
We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for granting it, recipient country policies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602771