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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723
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A replication of "The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries : insights from multivariate time series analysis" (Oxford Bulletin of Statistics and Economics, 2014)
Roger, Lionel - 2019
Macroeconomic data have been shown to vary substantially between sources, especially so for low-income countries. While the impact of data revisions on inference is well documented for cross-country studies, there is no systematic analysis of the robustness of results obtained from time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990915
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A replication of "The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries: insights from multivariate time series analysis" (Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014)
Roger, Lionel - 2019
Macroeconomic data have been shown to vary substantially between sources, especially so for low-income countries. While the impact of data revisions on inference is well documented for cross-country studies, there is no systematic analysis of the robustness of results obtained from time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139181
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What drives Donor Funding in Population Assistance Programs?
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Reuser, Mieke - 2005
The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325477
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What drives donor funding in population assistance programs?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - 2005
The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343951
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Mostly harmless? : a subnational analysis of the aid-conflict nexus
Weezel, Stijn van - 2017
Although most aid projects are aimed at local development, most research on the aid-conflict nexus is based on the … country-year as unit of analysis. In contrast, this study examines the link between aid commitments and conflict intensity at … local aid allocations. The data shows that in general the spatial interdependence between aid and conflict is low, as aid is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774698
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What Drives Donor Funding in Population Assistance Programs?
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Reuser, Mieke - 2005
The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064190
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Will HIPC matter? The debt game and donor behaviour in Africa
Birdsall, Nancy; Claessens, Stijn; Diwan, Ishac - 2002
In this paper we focus on the question: will the HIPC debt reduction programme help in the transformation of the development assistance business and change the rules of the ‘debt game’ in Africa? We concentrate on the donor and official creditor side, by exploring how the growing debt of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279105
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The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries: Insights from multivariate time series analysis
Juselius, Katarina; Framroze Møller, Niels; Tarp, Finn - 2011
Studies of aid effectiveness abound in the literature, often with opposing conclusions. Since most time-series studies use data from the exact same publicly available data bases, our claim here is that such differences in results must be due to the use of different econometric models and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280113
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The macroeconomic management of increased aid : policy lessons from recent experience
Aiyar, Shekhar (contributor); Berg, Andrew (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper investigates the macroeconomic challenges created by a surge in aid inflows. It develops an analytical framework for examining possible policy responses to increased aid, in terms of absorption and spending of aid - where the central bank controls absorption through monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793498