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Why Donors of Foreign Aid Do Not Coordinate : The Role of Competition for Export Markets and Political Support
Fuchs, Andreas - 2015
Development assistance has been criticized for a lack of coordination between aid donors. This paper argues that competition for export markets and political support prevents donor countries from closer coordination of aid activities. To test these hypotheses, we perform logit and fractional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013681
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Less aid proliferation and more donor coordination? The wide gap between words and deeds
Aldasoro, Iñaki; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2009
We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265231
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Globalisierung der Automobilindustrie: neue Standorte auf dem Vormarsch, traditionelle Anbieter unter Druck?
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2000
Der Beitrag analysiert die internationalen Produktionsverlagerungen und Investitionsverflechtungen in der Automobilindustrie, um die These zu überprüfen, dass es selbst bei der Herstellung relativ wissensund technologieintensiver Güter zu einem nachdrängenden Wettbewerb aus Ländern mit...
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Shooting the messenger of good news: a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002
In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265537
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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?
Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2006
We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272941
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Assessing the allocation of aid: Developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, … - 2005
measured by the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). If the CPIA is replaced by the Kaufmann index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273156
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Do multinational enterprises contribute to convergence or divergence? A disaggregated analysis of US FDI
Mayer-Foulkes, David; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2005
It is a widely held belief that foreign direct investment (FDI) has a positive effect on economic growth. We test this hypothesis by performing convergence regressions derived from a model of endogenous technological change. We estimate the rate of growth in per-capita income, relative to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273167
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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do!
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277984
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Are 'new' donors different? Comparing the allocation of bilateral aid between non-DAC and DAC donor countries
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2010
Major DAC donors are widely criticized for weak targeting of aid, selfish aid motives and insufficient coordination. The emergence of an increasing number of new donors may further complicate the coordination of international aid efforts. On the other hand, new donors (many of which were aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278173
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What drives FDI from non-traditional sources? A comparative analysis of the determinants of bilateral FDI flows
Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Busse, … - 2012
Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the determinants of FDI differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280792