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Fueling Conflict? (De)Escalation and Bilateral Aid
Bluhm, Richard - 2016
This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major …-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second, we develop a novel empirical framework. We propose a dynamic ordered probit … aid on conflict by predicting bilateral aid flows based on electoral outcomes of donor countries that are exogenous to …
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Aid and Growth. New Evidence Using an Excludable Instrument
Dreher, Axel - 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/10012970832
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Harnessing Windfall Revenues : Optimal Policies for Resource-Rich Developing Economies
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2009
A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764524
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Foreign Aid and Domestic Absorption
Temple, Jonathan R.W. - 2014
We introduce a new 'supply-push' instrument for foreign aid, to be used together with an instrumental variable estimator that filters out unobserved common factors. We use this instrument to study the effects of aid on macroeconomic ratios, and especially the ratios of consumption, investment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044599
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Tax Sparing, FDI, and Foreign Aid : Evidence from Territorial Tax Reforms
Azémar, Céline - 2016
The governments of many developing countries seek to attract inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) through the use of tax incentives for multinational corporations (MNCs). The effectiveness of these tax incentives depends crucially on MNCs' residence country tax regime, especially where the...
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The Political Economy of Multilateral Aid Funds
Simon, Jenny - 2016
In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the GDP of Kenya. Interestingly, breaking from the traditional model of bilateral aid, donor countries distributed nearly fifty percent of their aid through multilateral aid funds...
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Aid on Demand : African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance
Dreher, Axel - 2015
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...
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First Impressions : How Leader Changes Affect Bilateral Aid
Rommel, Tobias - 2017
This paper investigates a new mechanism to explain politically induced changes in bilateral aid. We argue that shifts in the foreign policy alignment between a donor and a recipient country following leadership changes induce reallocation of aid. This is due to heightened uncertainty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967869
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The Effects of Foreign Aid on Refugee Flows
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2021
This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315429
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Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans : The Dependence of Bilateral Aid on Other Bilateral Giving
Davies, Ronald B. - 2013
Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083870