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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 the effect of Chinese aid on subnational economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025573
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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 the effect of Chinese aid on subnational economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033099
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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries
Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
Of the world’s 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687331
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Aid, growth, and jobs
Fields, Gary S. - 2012
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009633136
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Aid, growth, and jobs
Fields, Gary S. - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696021
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087872
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Does trade cause long-run development? : theory and evidence from countries behind the Suez channel
Gerritse, Michiel - 2015 - Preliminary
globalization and 'aid for trade', and this is one of the first papers to provide an economic rationale. I exploit the 1967-1975 war …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478180
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Another look at foreign aid
Ranis, Gustav - 2013
The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of … 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co …-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these changes the debate over aid effectiveness rages on. What impact has aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194863
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Do International Trade Institutions Contribute to Economic Growth and Development?
Paul, Joel R. - 2012
Proponents of trade liberalization routinely defend international trade institutions as engines of economic growth that benefit everyone. How trade proponents justify trade institutions matters because their justificatory rhetoric leads to certain policy conclusions about whether it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074487
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Financing for development : editors' introduction
Adam, Christopher S.; Panizza, Ugo; Presbitero, Andrea; … - In: Oxford review of economic policy 31 (2015) 3/4, pp. 259-267
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434487