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Does membership on the UN Security Council influence IMF decisions? Evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2007

We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the IMF, using panel data for 191 countries over the period 1951 to 2004. Our results indicate a robust positive relationship between temporary UN Security Council membership and participation in...

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The Impact of Aid on Growth an aid disaggregation approach

Ouattara, Bazoumana; Strobl, Eric - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of aid on growth. A clear departure from the vast majority of the existing … literature is that we a disaggregate aid by functional classification. Using the GMM SYS approach to dynamic panel estimator we … test the three main competing specifications in the aid and growth literature for a sample of aid recipient countries over …

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Aid for War? An Empirical Assessment of Donor Interventions in Civil Wars

Lechtenfeld, Tobias - 2008

Since 1960 foreign aid to countries with civil war has exceeded $300 billion in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. Using a …

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Aiming high, falling short: the Least Developed Country (LDC) category at 40

Fialho, Djalita - 2011

Why have 94% of LDCs not escaped poverty during the last four decades? This paper analyses the motivation behind the UN decision to establish the LDC category in 1971. The reviewed literature highlights the conflicting interests of the actors involved. It provides a historical account of the...

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Subsidizing Quantity Donations: Matches, Rebates, and Discounts Compared

Diederich, Johannes; Eckel, Catherine C.; Epperson, Raphael - 2019

We present online-experimental evidence that challenges the generalizability of established results on subsidizing giving by considering a "quantity donation" scheme. We define this scheme as one in which donors choose how many units of a charitable good to fund, rather than the amount of money...

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The double dividend of social information in charitable giving: Evidence from a framed field experiment

Feine, Gregor; Groh, Elke D.; von Loessl, Victor; … - 2021

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Virtual reality and charitable giving – the role of space, presence, and attention

Gugenishvili, Ilia; Nyström, Anna-Greta - 2023

Virtual Reality (VR) is a promising tool for nudging charitable attitudes and behavior. Still, how VR experiences are processed by users remains unclear. To ensure the future success of VR storytelling, therefore, it is critical to understand how users experience a VR story overall, and what the...

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The Tsunami and the Chit Fund- Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami Hit on Credit Demand in South India

Czura, Kristina; Klonner, Stefan - 2010

limited in terms of the order of magnitude of effects, and (iii) semi-formal credit and official aid are substitutes as …

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Long-run consequences of natural disasters: Evidence from Tangshan

Xu, Guo - 2011

Exploiting Tangshan 1976 - the deadliest earthquake in the 20th century - as a source of exogenous variation, we estimate the cohort-specific effects of a historical shock on contemporary socio-economic outcomes. While cohorts born after the earthquake were considerably larger, the adverse...

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Voting after a major flood: Is there a link between democratic experience and retrospective voting?

Rode, Johannes; Neugart, Michael - 2019

Retrospective voting may be an effective instrument for overcoming moral hazard of politicians if voters evaluate the performance of elected representatives correctly. Whether democratic experience helps them to properly assess a policymaker's performance is less well understood. We analyze...

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