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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
favoritism in the allocation of Chinese aid towards the home regions of recipient country leaders reduce its effectiveness. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033099
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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
favoritism in the allocation of Chinese aid towards the home regions of recipient country leaders reduce its effectiveness. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026889
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Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, … - 2019
favoritism in the allocation of Chinese aid towards the home regions of recipient country leaders reduce its effectiveness. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052845
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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : a subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179455
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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723
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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226698
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Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Drehery, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230114
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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 which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978531
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Aid on demand : African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2015
This article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders … development finance projects across 3,097 physical locations committed to Africa over the 2000-2012 period. Our econometric … results show that current political leaders’ birth regions receive substantially larger financial ows from China than other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295794
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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel (contributor) - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336343