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Coping with disasters: Two centuries of international official lending
Horn, Sebastian; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2020
Official (government-to-government) lending is much larger than commonly known, often surpassing total private cross-border capital flows, especially during disasters such as wars, financial crises and natural catastrophes. We assemble the first comprehensive long-run dataset of official...
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The motives for Chinese and Western countries' sovereign lending to Africa
Bode, Eckhardt - 2024
This paper is one of the first to show systematically that the motives for sovereign lending to African countries differed considerably between China and Western countries during the last two decades. While Chinese lending mainly served its own economic or geopolitical objectives, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014531825
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Subsidization and Structural Change in Eastern German Transition: Did Economic Policy Meet Its Objectives?
Gerling, Katja - 2000
Economic policy interventions of a scale as effected in eastern Germany can be expected to have a significant impact on the economy, which may be in accordance with the objectives of the policy measures or manifest itself in distortions of several kinds. This paper analyzes the structural...
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Does India use development finance to compete with China? A subnational analysis
Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2021
China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian...
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The future of the IMF: how to prevent the next global financial crisis
Siebert, Horst - 1998
The paper analyzes how the next financial crisis can be prevented and which role the IMF should play. The paper distinguishes between the improvement of existing instruments and solving the moral hazard problem. Both issues are interrelated. The size of operation of the IMF creates a moral...
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Aid fragmentation and donor coordination in Uganda: A district-level analysis
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Rank, Michaela; Thiele, Rainer - 2015
. In this paper, we employ geocoded aid data from Uganda to assess whether the country's donors have increasingly … direction: over the period 2006-2013, aid of most major donors in Uganda became more fragmented, and the duplication of aid …
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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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Mehr ist nicht genug: wirksame Entwicklungshilfe für Afrika?
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2005
Nationen fordern deshalb, die Entwicklungshilfe massiv aufzustocken, und der Afrika-Aktionsplan der G8 verspricht eine … Konzentration der Hilfe auf Afrika. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich zum einen die Frage, in welchem Maß die lokalen … ist die Versicherung der Geber zu hinterfragen, dass sich die Verteilung der Hilfe für Afrika an Effizienzkriterien …
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Oil revenues for public investment in Africa: Targeting urban or rural areas?
Böhme, Marcus; Breisinger, Clemens; Schweickert, Rainer; … - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of oil financed public investment on poverty using a dynamic multisectoral general equilibrium model featuring inter-temporal productivity spillovers, which may exhibit a sector-specific and regional bias. In general, the results bear out the expectation that...
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Firm size distribution and employment fluctuations: Theory and evidence
Görg, Holger; Henze, Philipp; Jienwatcharamongkhol, Viroj - 2016
This paper studies the effect of the firm-size distribution on the relationship between employment and output. We construct a theoretical model, which predicts that changes in demand for industry output have larger effects on employment in industries characterised by a distribution that is more...
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