We investigate the importance of geo-strategic and commercial motives for the allocation of German aid to 138 countries over the 1973-2010 period. We find that geo-strategic and – less robustly – commercial motives matter. When we relate geo-strategic and commercial motives to the political...

Humankapital - der wichtigste Produktionsfaktor, den Deutschland besitzt - hat einen quantitativ bedeutsamen Einfluss auf das Wirtschaftswachstum. Das Bildungssystem sollte daher effizienter gestaltet werden. Bisher fehlt dem deutschen Bildungssystem eine wirksame Leistungskontrolle vor allem...

I investigate  the  effect  of  ratification  of different  human  rights  treaties  adopted  by  the United  Nations  General  Assembly  on  Official Development  Assistance  (ODA)  by  donors  of  the OECD  Development  Assistance  Committee  (DAC).  On  average...

In this paper we investigate whether the design of World Bank conditionality, namely the extent of trade liberalization conditions, is influenced by the commercial motives of the Bank’s five major shareholders. Using a newly available dataset on World Bank conditionality we analyze the...

The so called resource curse, the fact that countries rich in natural resources often show lower rates of economic growth compared to resource-poor countries, is commonly attributed to the low quality of governance in resource-rich countries. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative...

The so called resource curse, the fact that countries rich in natural resources often show lower rates of economic growth compared to resource-poor countries, is commonly attributed to the low quality of governance in resource-rich countries. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative...