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Connective Financing: 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...

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On the dynamic effects of foreign aid on corruption

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional proximity, openness to sea, natural resources and...

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Institutional benchmarking of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

Africa. (2) But for a thin exception (democracy), foreign-aid is more negatively correlated with countries of higher …

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Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The panel quantile regression …

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Foreign aid and subnational development : a grid cell analysis

Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2018 - This Version: March 2018

We examine the impact of geo-referenced World Bank development programs on subnational development using equally sized grid cells with a spatial resolution of 0.5 decimal degrees latitude x longitude as the unit of investigation. The proposed grid cell approach solves a number of endogeneity...

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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, … - 2020

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Development Thresholds of Foreign Aid Effectiveness in Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/Methodology/Approach – The panel quantile regression …

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Thresholds of external flows for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019

countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It complements the literature by examining the relevance of enhancing three types of external …

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Lightening up Africa : the effects of Chinese aid on the economic development in Africa

Xu, Zhicheng Phil; Zhang, Yu - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 2 (2022) 3, pp. 178-189

This article studies the effects of Chinese aid on economic development in Africa. We geographically match Chinese aid … in Africa to the satellite nightlight and other variables. Using a grid-cell panel dataset, we find that Chinese aid …, particularly infrastructure projects, has significant and robust positive impacts on the economic development in Africa. Mechanism …

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China's Impact on Africa – The Role of Trade, FDI and Aid

Busse, Matthias - 2017

evidence for displacement effects of African firms due to competition from China. Chinese foreign investment and aid in Africa …

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