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of financial dependence for imitating the state and herding among NGOs. -- NGO aid, aid allocation, official co … target aid to the poor and deserving are increasingly disputed. We contribute to the emerging literature on the allocation of …, we cover the allocation of both self-financed and officially co-financed aid for a large panel of NGOs and recipient …
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-income countries. While its allocation has been shown to be influenced by donors' foreign policy considerations, power relations within …
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We develop a screening model to analyse the funding allocation criteria of institutional donors towards NGOs. The model …
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allocation decisions. We estimate the determinants of China's allocation of project aid, food aid, medical teams and total aid … money to developing countries, comparing its allocation decisions with traditional and other so-called emerging donors. We … find that political considerations are an important determinant of China's allocation of aid. However, in comparison to …
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We present a new mechanism to explain politically induced changes in bilateral aid. We argue that shifts in the foreign policy alignment between a donor and a recipient country arising from leadership changes induce reallocation of development aid. Utilizing data from the G7 and 133 developing...
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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...
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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,...
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donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid allocation as …
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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,...
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The governments of many developing countries seek to attract inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) through the use of tax incentives for multinational corporations (MNCs). The effectiveness of these tax incentives depends crucially on MNCs' residence country tax regime, especially where the...
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