test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United … results show that the relationship of aid with growth is significantly lower when aid has been committed during a country …’s tenure on the UNSC. We derive two conclusions from this. First, short-term political favoritism reduces growth. Second …

investigate whether geopolitical motives matter by testing whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of … provides quasi-random variation in commitments. Our results show that the effect of aid on growth is significantly lower when … reduces growth. Second, political interest variables are invalid instruments for aid, raising doubts about a large number of …

testing whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United …. Our results show that the effect of aid on growth is significantly lower when aid has been granted for political reasons …. We derive two conclusions from this. First, short-term political favoritism reduces growth. Second, political interest …

adverse growth effects in the global South due to the neglected cultural differences between development aid (paradigm … hypotheses are tested empirically in augmented aid-growth models, first, by considering the political ideology of both … donor and the recipient, (b) larger cultural distance between donors and recipient reduces the effect of aid on growth to …

aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter … and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ; growth ; politics …