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Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2014

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the aid has...

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Geopolitics, aid and growth : conference paper

Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2014

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects, reduce the aid bureaucracy s effort, and change the power structure in the...

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Geopolitics, Aid and Growth

Dreher, Axel - 2013

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries' political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracy's...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079379

Too many cooks in the kitchen? : the division of financing in World Bank projects and project performance

Winters, Matthew S. - 2019

The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of … financial collaborators in World Bank projects with the World Bank’s ratings of project performance, looking at within …

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Politics and IMF conditionality

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2013 - This version: June 2013

propose to measure political importance using temporary membership on the United Nations Security Council and analyze a newly …

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Politics and IMF conditionality

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2013 - This version: June 2013

propose to measure political importance using temporary membership on the United Nations Security Council and analyze a newly …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757253

Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF conditionality?

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2010

We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to...

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Development aid and international politics: Does membership on the UN Security Council influence World Bank decisions?

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

temporary UN Security Council membership and the number of World Bank projects a country receives, even after accounting for …We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the World Bank … economic and political factors, as well as regional and country effects. The size of World Bank loans, however, is not affected …

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Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF conditionality?

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2010

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Gesture politics or real commitment? : gender inequality and the allocation of aid

Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - 2013

Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education, health, and civil society projects could be affected...

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