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The Surprise Party: An Analysis of US ODA Flows to Africa

Goldstein, Markus P.; Moss, Todd J. - 2003

Conventional wisdom about US foreign policy toward Africa contains two popular assumptions. First, Democrats are widely considered the party most inclined to care about Africa and the most willing to spend resources on assistance to the continent. Second, the end of the Cold War was widely...

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Changing Aid Regimes? U.S. Foreign Aid from the Cold War to the War on Terror

Fleck, Robert K.; Kilby, Christopher - Economics Department, School of Business - 2009

This paper explores how U.S. bilateral economic aid has or has not changed with the advent of the War on Terror. In particular, has the renewed geopolitical role of aid coincided with a reduction of aid to the poorest countries or less weight on need in U.S. aid allocation decisions? We start...

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Aid and trade: A donor's perspective

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008

Foreign aid is given for a combination of economic, political, and humanitarian motives. While its impact on economic development in recipient countries has been the main focus of research recently, we concentrate on the question to what extent it also promotes donor countries’ exports. We...

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Aid and Trade from a Donor's Perspective

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008

Aid is given for various purposes. Its impact on donors' exports usually depends on whether it is given for altruistic reasons (to overcome human tragedies and disasters) or in an understanding to promote development (to finance infrastructure or social projects). As to humanitarian aid the...

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Does aid-for-trade from the North promote South-South trade?

Hühne, Philipp; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014

Our empirical estimations indicate that aid-for-trade granted by OECD donors strengthens the trade relations of recipient countries with other developing countries. By focusing on South-South trade we mitigate endogeneity concerns that have plagued analyses of trade between recipients and donors...

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Does Official Development Assistance Affect Donor’s Export? Case of Korea

Noh, Bobae; Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its …. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and its export effectiveness are highly interrelated, this kind of simultaneous … squares estimation method leads to accounting for twoways causal relationships between ODA and export while the endogeneity …

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Does Official Development Assistance Affect Donor's Export? Case of Korea

Noh, Bobae; Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its …. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and its export effectiveness are highly interrelated, this kind of simultaneous … squares estimation method leads to accounting for two-ways causal relationships between ODA and export while the endogeneity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653281

Aid for Trade, Export Product Diversification and Import Product Diversification

Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm - 2020

The literature on the effect of Aid for Trade (AfT) has shown that AfT flows can be associated with greater export product diversification in recipient-countries. However, the import product diversification effect of AfT interventions has received scant attention in this literature. The present...

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Tariff Volatility and Tariff Policy in Developed and Developing Countries

Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm - 2020

In this paper, we investigate 'at the aggregate level', the effect of tariff volatility on tariff rates, using three groups of products, including 'all products', 'manufactured products' and 'primary products', and a large panel dataset covering 163 countries over the period 1995-2017. Results,...

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Effect of the duration of membership in the World Trade Organization on Trademark Applications

Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm - 2022

This article has examined the effect of the duration of the membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the submission of trademarks by countries' residents. The analysis has used an unbalanced sample of 124 countries (including developed and developing countries), and primarily the...

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