This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the political leaders’ birth regions and regions populated by the ethnic group...

This paper studies the relationship between donor governments' Official Development Assistance (ODA) decisions and corruption in recipient countries over the period 1999-2010. Previous studies found that donors do not penalize recipients on the basis of corruption. Using a rich panel data set,...

This article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the political leaders' birth regions and regions populated by the ethnic group to...