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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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Needs-based targeting or favoritism? : the regional allocation of multilateral aid within recipient countries
Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013
The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a sample of 27 recipient countries to assess the claim of...
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Does aid-for-trade from the North promote South-South trade?
Hühne, Philipp; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
Our empirical estimations indicate that aid-for-trade granted by OECD donors strengthens the trade relations of recipient countries with other developing countries. By focusing on South-South trade we mitigate endogeneity concerns that have plagued analyses of trade between recipients and donors...
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Aid for trade : assessing the effects on recipient exports of manufactures and primary commodities to donors and non-donors
Hühne, Philipp; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
Considering that primary commodity dependence continues to be a major problem of various lower income countries, we analyze whether Aid for Trade (AfT) has helped recipient countries upgrade and diversify their exports. Estimating an asymmetric and aggregated gravity model, we find that AfT has...
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Tracking Chinese aid through China customs : darlings and orphans after the COVID-19 outbreak
Fuchs, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2022
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China's mask and vaccine diplomacy have been widely discussed, but the debate relies on a few stylized data points. This article introduces a systematic way to measure China's foreign aid in almost real-time through official customs records of...
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On the roles of different foreign currencies in European bank lending
Krogstrup, Signe; Tille, Cédric - 2015
We draw on a new data set on the use of Swiss francs and other currencies by European banks to assess the patterns of foreign currency bank lending. We show that the patterns differ sharply across foreign currencies. The Swiss franc is used predominantly for lending to residents, especially...
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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...
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An empirical evaluation of macroeconomic surveillance in the European Union
Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens; Jannsen, Nils; Plödt, Martin; … - 2015 - This version: November 27, 2015
The EU's macroeconomic surveillance mechanism, namely the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP), is based on the so-called Scoreboard, which comprises a set of indicators that serve as a signalling device for potentially harmful macroeconomic developments. We first evaluate the early warning...
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Bilateral trade and conflict heterogeneity : the impact of conflict on trade revisited
Kamin, Katrin - 2022
vulnerable to the repercussions of conflict. In this context, this paper analyses the relationship between trade and conflict … from a trade perspective: Using data from UCDP and COMTRADE this paper studies the effects of five different conflict types …, this paper finds that the heterogeneity of conflict types and their distinct characteristics matter for the magnitude and …
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The effects of international trade on structural change and CO2 emissions
Hübler, Michael; Bukin, Eduard; Xi, Yuting - 2020
This article introduces a new econometric model that includes an innovative measure of intersectoral structural change. This model describes the structural convergence (or divergence) of sector share patterns across countries (from the North-South or global perspective) influenced by...
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