By reallocating aid to where it is needed most and where a productive use is most likely, donors could help alleviate poverty in developing countries. The rhetoric of donors suggests that this insight has increasingly shaped the allocation of aid. We assess the poverty and policy orientation of...

In this paper, we perform a Tobit analysis of aid allocations, covering the period 1999-2002 and accounting for both altruistic and selfish donor motives. We first compare the allocative behavior of all bilateral donors taken together with that of multilateral aid agencies, and then look at nine...

Seit Mitte der achtziger Jahre hat sich ein grundlegender Wandel in der außenwirtschaftlichen Struktur Japans vollzogen. Mit der rapiden Yen-Aufwertung begannen japanische Unternehmen verstärkt in der asiatisch-pazifischen Region zu produzieren und deren komparative Vorteile für ihre...