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The Rise of Communism in China
Chen, Ting; Kung, James Kai-Sing - 2021
We show that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) experienced significantly faster growth in counties occupied by the Japanese Army than those garrisoned by the Kuomingtang (KMT) during the Sino-Japanese War (c. 1940-45), using the density of middle-to-upper rank Communist cadres (5.4%) and the...
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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
China’s provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000 - 2011. We...
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Foreign aid, poverty and economic growth in developing countries : a dynamic panel data causality analysis
Mahembe, Edmore; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-17
This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …
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Foreign Aid, Terrorism and Growth : Conditional Evidence from Quantile Regression
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence … is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism dynamics are employed … investigated hypothesis, we consistently confirm that: (i) In quantiles where terrorism is found to increase (decrease) economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897568
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Foreign aid, terrorism and growth : conditional evidence from quantile regression
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2018
terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence … is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism dynamics are employed … investigated hypothesis, we consistently confirm that: (i) In quantiles where terrorism is found to increase (decrease) economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998255
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The impact of UN and US economic sanctions on GDP growth
Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2015
In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976-2012. We find, first, that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant...
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The impact of UN and US economic sanctions on GDP growth
Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2014 - First draft: 28 March 2014, This version: 20 May 2014
In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976-2012. We find, first, that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356172
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The impact of UN and US economic sanctions on GDP growth
Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2014 - This version: 28 March 2014
In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976 - 2012. We find that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336190
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The Impact of UN and US Economic Sanctions on GDP Growth
Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2014
In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976–2012. We find, first, that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056309
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The economic effects of international sanctions : an event study
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2021 - This Version: October 26, 2021
Although international sanctions are a widely used instrument of coercion, their economic effects are still not well-understood. This study uses a novel dataset and an event study approach to evaluate the economic consequences of international sanctions, thereby visualizing pre-treatment and...
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