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Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000 - 2011. We find that China's commitments amounted to approximately US$ 73 billion …China's provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our …
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Although most aid projects are aimed at local development, most research on the aid-conflict nexus is based on the country-year as unit of analysis. In contrast, this study examines the link between aid commitments and conflict intensity at the local level for three African countries between...
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Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000-2011. Our initial data collection efforts found that China’s official finance …China’s development finance is sizable but reliable information is scarce. To address critical information gaps, we … alternative funding from China. More broadly, these findings highlight the importance of gathering better data on the development …
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Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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Donor reactions to recent settlements of internal conflicts have been highly diverse, in terms of both overall aid and its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor countries. There is no conclusive evidence, however, that the...
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When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and...
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This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...
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We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of conflict. We postulate a Tullock contest success function...
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China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses … these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we … demonstrate that India's Exim Bank is significantly more likely to locate a project in a given jurisdiction if China provided …
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