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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 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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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
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Project Aid and Firm Performance
Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2022
This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using … a large dataset of 110864 firms spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We find that, contrary to the World Bank …
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119295
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Making Aid Work : Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S. - 2015
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict? Understanding the Decision of an Opposition Group
Jetter, Michael - 2016
When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988126
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Should Easier Access to International CreditReplace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for arecipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth vianon-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoreticmodel to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522214
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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2009
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by … the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155467
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Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality
Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2019
We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...
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Does Official Development Assistance Affect Donor's Export? Case of Korea
Noh, Bobae - 2017
This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 with 121 recipient countries. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and...
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