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...

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....

Die Entwicklungsinitiative NePAD hat große Erwartungen geweckt. Im Vergleich zu früheren Entwicklungsprogrammen liegt die entscheidende Neuerung von NePAD jedoch nicht in den anvisierten Zielen wie Wirtschaftswachstum und Good Governance, sondern in den Mitteln und Verfahren, mit denen diese...

The political economy literature highlights the redistribution of resources to political support groups - often along regional or ethnic lines - as a dominant feature of political systems. Against this assumption, Kasara (2007) documents a puzzling result of discriminatory rent extraction by...