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How Germany and France could play a leading role in international donor coordination

Kaplan, Lennart - Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik - 2020

The future shape of European trade policy and the right stance to take in security and climate matters are currently the subject of fierce Franco-German debate. These issues are also relevant to development policy in the context of the overarching 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite...

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Systemic challenges and opportunities of Franco-German development cooperation

Kaplan, Lennart - Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik - 2020

France and Germany face common issues in global development policy, including climate change, migration and security. At the same time, their aid is spread across similar countries and sectors. Based on a quantitative overlap measure, the study reveals that the Franco-German overlap of aid...

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Aid and conflict at the subnational level : evidence from World Bank and Chinese development projects in Africa

Gehring, Kai S.; Wong, Melvin Heen Lung; Kaplan, Lennart - 2018

Using geo-referenced data on development projects by the World Bank and China, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effect of aid on conflict using fixed effects and instrumental variables strategies. The results show that aid projects seem to reduce rather than fuel conflict, on average....

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China and the World Bank : how contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states

Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin Heen Lung - 2019

China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that both aim at stability, but differ in the norms propagated to achieve that. Using fixed effects and IV estimations, we analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in...

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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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The great equalizer : effects of Chinese official finance on economic complexity across recipient countries

Denninger, Jan; Kaplan, Lennart - 2025

This paper analyzes whether Chinese aid and other forms of official finance affect structural transformation in low- and-middle income countries. Specifically, we employ an instrumental variables (IV) approach to causally analyze the effect on the Economic Complexity Index of 98 recipient...

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Why Germany should continue its development cooperation with China

Zajac, Kimsey; Kaplan, Lennart - 2021

Empfänger der staatlichen Entwicklungshilfe Deutschlands, was in der Öffentlichkeit häufig für Verwirrung sorgt. Die Autoren … stellen dar, dass die deutschen Zahlungen an China keine "traditionelle Entwicklungshilfe" im Sinne von Armutsbekämpfung durch … über die Natur der Entwicklungshilfe für China zu schaffen und damit die "Win-Win-Situation" in der deutsch …

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China's aid exports to Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic : how much? : where? : what?

Fuchs, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2022

China’s aid to Africa receives significant attention from policymakers, development practitioners, and observers worldwide. This is even more the case since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, given China’s importance as a donor of vaccines, ventilators, face masks, disinfectants, and...

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China and the World Bank : how contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states

Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin H. L. - In: Journal of development economics 158 (2022), pp. 1-12

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013359149