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The effect of foreign aid on migration: Global micro evidence from world bank projects
Fuchs, Andreas; Gröger, André; Heidland, Tobias; … - 2023
term. We combine newly geocoded data on World Bank aid project allocation at the subnational level over the period 2008 …--2019 with exceptionally rich survey data from a sample of almost one million individuals across the entire developing world and … show that in the short term (after the announcement of a World Bank project and within two years after project disbursement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426859
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South-North Refugee Migration : Lessons for Development Cooperation
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Migration has become a major concern of European development policies. By improving socio-economic and political conditions through development cooperation, a reduction of South-North migration flows is envisaged. This new approach is examined by analyzing the causes of asylum migration from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074593
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Trade, Aid, Remittances and Migration
Akkoyunlu, Sule - 2014
I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish migration to Germany and tested the model for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206175
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Donors’ openness to immigration and the effectiveness of foreign aid
Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015
We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467104
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The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2018
causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both total refugee flows to the world and flows to donor countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794246
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Managing migration flows through foreign aid
Marchal, Léa; Naiditch, Claire; Simsek, Betül - 2021
This paper investigates through which channels foreign aid impacts migration to donor countries. To disentangle the non-donor-specific channels (development and credit constraint channels) from the donor-specific channels (information and instrumentation channels), we use the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431125
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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 … financial collaborators in World Bank projects with the World Bank’s ratings of project performance, looking at within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978531
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Aid and growth. New evidence using an excludable instrument
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2017
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country’s probability of receiving aid. The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745358
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Government ideology in donor and recipient countries : does political proximity matter for the effectiveness of aid?
Dreher, Axel; Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013
Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128857
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Aid and growth : new evidence using an excludable instrument
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343084