We test the hypothesis that aid recipient governments are better able to utilize aid flows for political favoritism during periods in which they are of geo-strategic value to major donors. We examine the effect of a country's (non-permanent) membership on the United Nations Security Council...

The COVAX initiative has allocated over 1.9 billion units of vaccines in a centralised framework to over 150 countries towards achieving countries’ self-reported demands. However, recipient countries are not always eligible for vaccines from all sources due to export licensing restrictions or...

We introduce ex-ante Pareto efficiency, which is a slightly weaker notion of efficiency than ex-post Pareto efficiency. We strengthen the impossibility between ex-post Pareto efficiency, strategyproofness, and envy-freeness in the random assignment problem and show that it prevails if ex-post...

Developing East Asia has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past few decades thanks to a combination of policies that fostered outward-oriented and labor-intensive growth, investments in basic human capital, and sound economic governance. However, slowing growth and shifting patterns...