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A new methodology, Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF), allows us to systematically gather open-source information - e.g. news reports, case studies, project inventories from embassy websites, and grant and loan data published by recipient governments - about Chinese development...
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patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, this may exacerbate …
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A new methodology, Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF), allows us to systematically gather open-source information - e.g. news reports, case studies, project inventories from embassy websites, and grant and loan data published by recipient governments - about Chinese development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237264
Indeed, China's ascent is significantly changing the landscape in aid-donor and aid-recipient relationship for African … determinants of China's financial aid to oil/ minerals exporting African countries. By using China's loan data obtained from the … analyse the motives. The results indicate that oil/minerals are not the motives behind China's aid to Africa. However, China …
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patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, this may exacerbate …
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appreciation of the local currencies vis à vis the RMB, while no such effect appears for aid ows from China. The former two …
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Weak economic performance of most oil rich countries states that natural resources are more curse than blessing for these countries. Resource curse theory examines the negative effects of rich natural resources on economic growth from an economic and political perspective. Since 1960s...
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This paper reconsiders the ‘curse of resources' hypothesis for the case of China, and distinguishes between resource abundance, resource rents, and resource dependence. Resource abundance and resource rents are shown to be approximately equivalent, and their association with resource...
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China's economic miracle over the past three decades has been featured with its open-door policy, especially the absorption of foreign capital. One downside effect of economic reform has been the ever rising interregional inequality. As FDI is highly unevenly distributed across regions, many...
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