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Aid allocation through various official and private channels : need, merit and self-interest as motives of German donors

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2009

Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to assess the relative importance of recipient need, recipient merit and self-interest of donors for various channels of official and private German aid across a...

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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries : missing the target?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...

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The economic benefits of giving aid in terms of donors' exports

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2010

This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between bilateral and multilateral foreign aid and exports. There are three primary findings from this approach. First, in the long term, the average return, in terms of an increase in the donor's level of goods exports, is...

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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries : missing the target?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

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Aid supplies over time : accounting for heterogeneity, trends, and dynamics

Jones, Sam - 2011

The recent financial crisis has rekindled interest in the foreign aid supply behaviour of bilateral donors. Using the latest data covering the period 1960-2009, this paper examines how such behaviour is related to domestic factors. Based on a simple empirical model, a distinction is made between...

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In search for a long-run relationship between aid and growth : pitfalls and findings

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009

standard panel estimation techniques, such as 2-ways FE estimation, panel GMM and SUR estimation, points to some pitfalls … dynamic feasible generalized least squares estimation (DFGLS)). Estimations with DFGLS show that aid has an insignificant or a … the world. It can be shown that by not controlling for autocorrelation, one erroneously attributes to aid a larger …

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The effect of foreign aid on income inequality : evidence from panel cointegration

Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012

This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing effect on income distribution. -- Inequality ;...

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Foreign aid and developing countries' creditworthiness

Harms, Philipp; Rauber, Michael - 2004

We explore whether foreign aid affects developing countries' creditworthiness, as proxied by the Institutional Investor's measure of country credit risk. Based on a simple model of international borrowing and lending, we develop the hypothesis that current aid reduces the likelihood of future...

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Aid, governance, and private foreign investment : some puzzling findings and a possible explanation

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias G. - 2003

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...

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Aid, infrastructure, and FDI : assessing the transmission channel with a new index of infrastructure

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015

We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance. By performing 3SLS estimations we explicitly account...

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