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Colonnelli, Emanuele - 2020

We estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil over the period 2003-2014 using rich micro-data on corruption and firms. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities experience an increase in economic activity concentrated in...

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Demokratie durch Entwicklungskonkurrenz

Wockenfuß, Christof - 2009

in favor of development contracts, proposing to provide development aid only in exchange for democratization. However … of endogenous democratization. …

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Explaining aid (in)effectiveness : the political economy of aid relationships

Brett, Edwin A. - 2016

International aid plays an ambivalent and contested role in stabilising the global system. It creates asym-metrical relationships between donors and recipients that succeed when their interests can be can harmo-nised but not when they conflict. Donors use their support to persuade sovereign...

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Armutsbekämpfung versus Demokratieförderung: Wie lässt sich der entwicklungspolitische Trade-Off überwinden?

Pies, Ingo; Wockenfuß, Christof - 2008

democratization. Using a rational choice approach to non-democratic regimes, this paper argues that there is a trade-off between these … alleviation means less democratization, and vice versa. It is possible to overcome this trade-off, however, if one can arouse the … democratization, and that democratic governments as well as dictators do have a common interest in implementing it. …

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Who gives aid to whom and when? : Aid accelerations, shocks and policies

Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011

We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...

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Taxation, Political Accountability, and Foreign Aid : Lessons from Somaliland

Eubank, Nicholas - 2011

For years, studies of state formation in early and medieval Europe have argued that the modern, representative state emerged as the result of negotiations between autocratic governments in need of tax revenues and citizens who were only willing to consent to taxation in exchange for greater...

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Rewarding Democratization? The Dynamics of General Budget Support in the Wake of Democratic Transitions

Reinsberg, Bernhard - 2012

development. With this expectation in mind, significant steps towards democratization should be rewarded with general budget … 1995 to 2009, the paper explores the evolution of general budget support in the wake of democratization through various … percent). With respect to the long-term effect of stable democratization, results are always insignificant, which may mask …

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Democratic Aid and the Democratization of Recipients

Kalyvitis, Sarantis C. - 2009

We investigate whether democracy aid flows, which are directed towards the democratization of recipients by covering …

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Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America

Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022

International economic engagement has been increasingly framed in terms of liberal democratic values. Specifically, Chinese aid has been at the center of this debate. Since Chinese aid comes with "no strings attached," a popular narrative is that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid,...

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Who Gives Aid to Whom and When? Aid Accelerations, Shocks and Policies

Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011

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