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Who gives aid to whom and when? Aid accelerations, shocks and policies
Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011
We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291892
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The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa.
Kohnert, Dirk; Elwert, Georg; Bierschenk, Thomas - In: Economics, Biannual Journal of the Institute for … 47 (1993) 1, pp. 83-111
. Development aid has become an important political and economic factor in most African countries. Its financial impact often … important dans la plupart des pays africains. Son impact financier dépasse souvent celle du budget national. Il contribue donc …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327882
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Who Gives Aid to Whom and When? Aid Accelerations, Shocks and Policies
Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011
We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335415
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Donor’s double talk undermines African agency: Comparative study of civic agency in Burkina Faso and Togo
Kohnert, Dirk - 2015
Despite a long-standing controversy about aid-effectiveness in general and the impact of aid-dependency on governance … unbiased evaluation of the hidden adverse impact of aid on collective action at the grassroots. Therefore, a rethinking of … comparative au Burkina Faso et au Togo : En dépit d'une longue controverse à propos de l' efficacité de l'aide en général et de l'impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341120
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Deterring emigration with foreign aid: An overview of evidence from low-income countries
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
in emigration. Third, this evidence implies that donors could achieve greater impact by leveraging foreign aid not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873617
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L’Angleterre, le Brexit et l’Afrique
Kohnert, Dirk - 2018
High-flying illusions on the part of the proponents and grim predictions on the part of the sceptics have characterised the controversy around Brexit. The article assesses five key issues at stake for post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU, and Africa: market access, foreign direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011965450
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Are NGOs the better donors? A case study of aid allocation for Sweden
Dreher, Axel; Mölders, Florian; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2007
selection of ODA recipients. However, the Swedish case also supports the skeptical view according to which NGOs are unlikely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273121
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Aid effort and its determinants
Round, Jeffery I.; Odedokun, Matthew - 2003
The paper empirically explores the factors that could have accounted for the generally declining aid effort (defined as the generosity ratio, or the share of GDP given as aid) of bilateral donors over the last three decades. Annual panel data over 1970-2000 period for the 22 DAC members are used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279144
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On the pitfalls of measuring aid
Renard, Robrecht; Cassimon, Danny - 2001
Aid (ODA, Official Development Assistance) statistics are routinely produced by the Development Assistance Committee … used to measure aid in general, and ODA in particular. The methodology is applied to some typical aid instruments, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279320
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Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism
Bomprezzi, Pietro; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; … - 2024
We investigate the informal influence of political leaders' spouses on the subnational allocation of foreign aid. Building new worldwide datasets on personal characteristics of political leaders and their spouses as well as on geocoded development aid projects (including new data on 19 Western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534431