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Need, merit, and politics in multilateral aid allocation : a district-level analysis of World Bank projects in India
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano - 2012
empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project … locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank … or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects …
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Regions and Super-Regions in Economic Development : Global Demarcations in the Impact of Foreign Aid on Foreign Investment
Nicholson, Michael W. - 2013
contrasts the relative homogeneous and heterogeneous influences of time-series panel data allows regions in the developing world …
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Does Foreign Aid Increase Foreign Direct Investment?
Selaya, Pablo - 2012
The notion that foreign aid and foreign direct investment (FDI) are complementary sources of capital is conventional among governments and international cooperation agencies. This paper argues that the notion is incomplete. Within the framework of an open economy Solow model we show that the...
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Coping with Disaster : The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, 1970-2001
Yang, Dean - 2013
How well do countries cope with the aftermath of natural disasters? In particular, how well do international financial flows buffer economic losses from disasters? This paper focuses on hurricanes (one of the most common and destructive types of disasters), and examines the impact of hurricane...
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Aid, governance, and private foreign investment : some puzzling findings and a possible explanation
Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias G. - 2003
Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...
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Does aid for education attract foreign investors? : an empirical analysis for Latin America
Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013
We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well targeted aid removed critical impediments to higher FDI inflows. In particular, we test the hypothesis that aid for education is an effective means to increase FDI flows...
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Does aid for education attract foreign investors? : an empirical analysis for Latin America
Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012
We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well targeted aid removed critical impediments to higher FDI inflows. In particular, test the hypothesis that aid for education is an effective means to increase FDI flows to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671654
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Function or Signal? 1st Party or 3rd Party? Local Aid and Foreign Direct Investment
Brazys, Samuel Rueckert - 2019
Recent data advances have opened exciting new avenues for analyzing the political economy of foreign aid. Recent papers have looked at the social, environmental or welfare implications of aid. This paper, however, combines geo-referenced data on foreign aid with a similarly coded dataset of FDI...
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Does Foreign Aid Mitigate the Adverse Effect of Expropriation Risk on Foreign Direct Investment?
Asiedu, Elizabeth - 2009
We construct a model of FDI, risk and aid, where a country loses access to FDI and aid if the country expropriates FDI. We show that: (i) The threat of expropriation leads to under-investment; (ii) The optimal level of FDI decreases as the risk of expropriation rises; and (iii) Under certain...
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Chinese aid to Africa: distinguishing features and local effects
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2020
Drawing on our recent work on local effects of Chinese development projects in Africa, this review article highlights a number of distinguishing features of Chinese aid, and discusses how these may translate into local aid impacts that differ from those of other donors. Unlike aid from other...
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