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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033099
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The effectiveness of aid under post-conflict conditions : a sector-specific analysis
Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016
It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of conflicts. However, the available empirical evidence supporting this view largely neglects the heterogeneous nature of aid. Drawing on the conflict database of the Uppsala Conflict Data...
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Foreign aid and subnational development : a grid cell analysis
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2018 - This Version: March 2018
association between foreign aid and economic growth, measurement errors, and endogenous sample selection bias. The estimates …-time lights growth. This finding is robust to the presence of unobserved country-year and grid-cell-specific unobserved …
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Assessing foreign aid's long-run contribution to growth and development
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 69 (2015), pp. 6-18
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Impact of refugee population on development: A comparative analysis for the case of host economies
Kouni, Mohamed - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 18 (2018) 1, pp. 77-96
This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between refugees and development in host economies from a macroeconomic point of view. The results obtained show that this relationship is non-linear. The empirical results demonstrate that refugees have a positive and significant direct...
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The role of trade-led economic growth in fostering development : lessons for the post-2015 development agenda
Priyadarshi, Shishir; Biswas, Trineesh - 2014 - Manuscript date: 18 July 2014
This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … supply-side capacity. Given the strong links between trade-led growth, economic upgrading, and poverty reduction, the paper … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. …
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Peter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development
Vasquez, Ian - In: Econ Journal Watch 4 (2007) 2, pp. 197-212
Peter Bauer was a pioneer in development economics and his contributions to the field have been vindicated by the collapse of central planning. Through most of his career, however, Bauer was marginalized by the economics profession. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, economists frequently...
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Development aid and growth in transition countries
Askarov, Zohid; Doucouliagos, Chris - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 66 (2015), pp. 383-399
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Development aid and growth in transition economies
Askarov, Zohid; Doucouliagos, Chris - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411172