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Aid, infrastructure, and FDI : assessing the transmission channel with a new index of infrastructure
Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015
We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance. By performing 3SLS estimations we explicitly account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374057
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Is aid for infrastructure effective? : a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach
Donaubauer, Julian; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016
The effects of foreign aid on the endowment of recipient countries with infrastructure have received surprisingly little attention in the empirical literature. This paper addresses this question by performing difference-in-difference-in-differences estimations, with the treatment defined as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444386
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Aid, infrastructure, and FDI : assessing the transmission channel with a new index of infrastructure
Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance. By performing 3SLS estimations we explicitly account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394325
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Birds of a Feather : Fiscal Conditionality and Recipient Country Ownership in Aid Allocation
Andrianarison, Francis - 2009
inflows as the mechanism for mitigating school user fees constraining education access in recipient countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720129
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Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2007
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We … of the link between government expenditure and education, (iii) the quality of institutions in the recipient country, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054166
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Gesture politics or real commitment? : gender inequality and the allocation of aid
Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - 2013
concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education … donors indeed give more aid to countries with larger gender gaps ('need') in education, health, employment, or women's rights …, or rather reward improvements in those indicators ('merit'). We find some evidence that gender gaps in education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784721
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Assessing budget support with statistical impact evaluation : a methodological proposal
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Hoop, Kobus de - 2008 - Forthcoming in World Development
illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372967
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Do we know what we think we know? : aid fragmentation and effectiveness revisited
Gehring, Kai; Michaelowa, Katharina; Dreher, Axel; … - 2015
fragmentation on aid effectiveness in the context of growth, bureaucratic policy, and education, focusing on a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335022
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Aid and growth : new evidence using an excludable instrument
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343084
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Geopolitics, aid and growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2013
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries ́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracyś...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764394