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Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance

Fuchs, Andreas; Öhler, Hannes - 2021

Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000-2016 period. We construct a new database...

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Water scarcity and the impact of improved irrigation management: a CGE analysis

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2008

We use the new version of the GTAP-W model to analyze the economy-wide impacts of enhanced irrigation efficiency. The new production structure of the model, which introduces a differentiation between rainfed and irrigated crops, allows a better understanding of the use of water resources in...

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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...

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Climate change impacts on global agriculture

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Betts, Richard; … - 2010

Based on predicted changes in the magnitude and distribution of global precipitation, temperature and river flow under the IPCC SRES A1B and A2 scenarios, this study assesses the potential impacts of climate change and CO2 fertilization on global agriculture. The analysis uses the new version of...

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Economic costs of ocean acidification: A look into the impacts on shellfish production

Narita, Daiju; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2011

ocean acidification. Our results show that the costs for the world as a whole could be over 100 billion USD with an … on the Chinese production, which is dominant in the world, and the expected demand increase of mollusks in today's low …

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Donor coordination and specialization: Did the Paris declaration make a difference?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Thiele, Rainer - 2011

We assess whether bilateral and multilateral donors of foreign aid specialized and coordinated their activities with other donors as agreed in the Paris Declaration of 2005. We account for donor heterogeneity, varying aid priorities and recipient characteristics in order to isolate changes in...

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Need, merit, and politics in multilateral aid allocation: A district-level analysis of World Bank projects in India

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano - 2012

empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank's choice of project … locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank … or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects …

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