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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited

Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015

on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …

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The war in Europe : economic costs of the Ukrainian conflict

Bluszcz, Julia; Valente, Marica - 2019

With more than ten thousand casualties, the 2014 Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the...

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Crisis Region Western Africa : the cradle of African migration to Europe

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007 - Rev.

In the last decades the number of refugees from conflict regions in Africa increased dramatically. West Africa is the …

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Foreign aid and recipient countries' exports : does aid promote bilateral trade?

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

This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between foreign aid and exports in recipient countries. Most of the theoretical work emphasizes the negative impact of aid on recipient countries' exports primarily due to exchange rate appreciation, disregarding possible...

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Does German development aid promote German exports and German employment? : a sectoral-level analysis

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2013

This paper uses an augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and sectoral exports from Germany to the aid recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run each dollar of German aid is associated with an average increase of 0.83 US...

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Aid and trade : a donor's perspective

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

One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time series data for Germany suggests an average return of between US$ 1.04 to US$ 1.50 for each US dollar of aid spent by Germany. Although this is well below previous estimates, the value is robust to...

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Aid and social cohesion

Danquah, Michael; Ouattara, Bazoumana - 2021

A plethora of work has been done on the effectiveness of foreign aid. However, virtually none of the previous studies has investigated the impact of aid on social cohesion. Yet, in order to promote the achievement of the targets in SDG 16, donors and global partners of developing countries have...

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Long Live Friendship? The Long-Term Impact of the Soviet Aid on Sino-Russian Trade

Hu, Zhi-an; Li, Jinghong; Nie, Zhuo - 2022

This paper studies the long-term effect of aid on bilateral trade and provides a new mechanism for this effect - aid fosters inter-group affinity. Our empirical setting is the Soviet aid to China during the 1950s, namely the 156 program, when numerous large-scale industrial plants were...

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Arming in the global economy : the importance of trade with enemies and friends

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2019 - Current version: December 10, 2018

We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar … with a third (friendly) country, a move from autarky to trade intensifies conflict between the two adversaries, inducing …

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Networks of military alliances, wars, and international trade

Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - 2014 - Draft: February 2014

We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...

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