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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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Does development aid increase military expenditure?

Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental...

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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...

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