Global public goods achieved prominence with the United Nations Development Programme’s publication in 1999. Global public goods are public goods with benefits or costs (crime, terrorism and disease) that extend across countries and regions, across rich and poor population groups, an even...

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of long- term ODA flows to Indonesia. ODA consists of bilateral and multilateral aid, but this paper focuses specifically on multilateral agencies like the World Bank or the ADB and Japan. The rationale for this approach is that the World Bank and the...

This paper analyses the impact of aid flows on governance. Using an instrumental variable approach and a large country sample, we find that aid has a negative rather than a positive influence on governance. This outcome is robust to various model specifications.

Germany's role in financing economic development in Asia on a sustainable basis leaves much to be desired. Direct investors are still underrepresented in the region. Commercial banks have fueled speculative bubbles. Official development financing does not appear to be based on efficiency-related...

Short-run responses of export and domestic shares of total agricultural output to changes in stocks of domestic savings (SAV), development assistance (ODA), private foreign commercial capital (PFX) and other variables is investigated. A profit function approach is used. Time series data for 19...

Germany's role in financing economic development in Asia on a sustainable basis leaves much to be desired. Direct investors are still underrepresented in the region. Commercial banks have fueled speculative bubbles. Official development financing does not appear to be based on efficiency-related...

How well do countries cope with the aftermath of natural disasters? Do international financial flows buffer countries in the wake of disasters? This paper examines the impact of hurricanes on resource flows to developing countries. Using meteorological data, I construct a time-varying storm...