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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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China and the World Bank : how contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states
Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 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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Aid and conflict at the subnational level : evidence from World Bank and Chinese development projects in Africa
Gehring, Kai S.; Wong, Melvin H. L.; 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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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...
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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 H. L.; 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141446