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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723
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Tracking under-reported financial flows: China's development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520608
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Do development minister characteristics affect aid giving?
Fuchs, Andreas; Richert, Katharina - 2015 - This version: November 2015
Over 300 government members have had the main responsibility for international development cooperation in 23 member countries of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee since the organization started reporting detailed Official Development Assistance (ODA) data in 1967. Understanding their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392085
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Aid on demand : African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2015
This article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the political leaders' birth regions and regions populated by the ethnic group to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295794
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Can aid buy foreign public support? : Evidence from Chinese development finance
Wellner, Lukas; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2022
Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167192
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Does India use development finance to compete with China? : a subnational analysis
Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819334
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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 in uence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian government-financed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546236
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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226698
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Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Drehery, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230114
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Does private aid follow the flag? : an empirical analysis of humanitarian assistance
Fuchs, Andreas; Öhler, Hannes - 2019 - This version: April 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012000557