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Financing for development : the gap between words and deeds since Monterrey
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2011
of donor generosity, aid effectiveness and new means of financing. However, the development orientation of world leaders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908314
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The effect of foreign aid on migration : global micro evidence from world bank projects
Fuchs, Andreas; Gröger, André; Heidland, Tobias; … - 2023
term. We combine newly geocoded data on World Bank aid project allocation at the subnational level over the period 2008 …--2019 with exceptionally rich survey data from a sample of almost one million individuals across the entire developing world and … show that in the short term (after the announcement of a World Bank project and within two years after project disbursement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014416115
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The new economy and the international regulatory framework
Piazolo, Daniel - 2001
The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of regulations and taxation between countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474230
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Needs-based targeting or favoritism? : the regional allocation of multilateral aid within recipient countries
Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013
use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722479
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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002
In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495588
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Government ideology in donor and recipient countries : does political proximity matter for the effectiveness of aid?
Dreher, Axel; Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013
Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...
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Bilateral investment treaties do work : until they don't
Aisbett, Emma; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016
The recent boom of investor-state disputes filed under international investment agreements has fueled a controversial academic and policy debate. Despite its importance, there has been very little work to date on the impacts of compensation claims by investors on FDI flows to the responding host...
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Winning or losing in investor-to-state dispute resolution : the role of arbitrator bias and experience
Donaubauer, Julian; Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2017
When an investor sues a state for alleged breaches of its obligations under an investment treaty or a trade agreement with investment provisions, all that should matter for who wins the case are the merits of the claim itself. Alas, investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) does not take place...
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Are stricter investment rules contagious? : host country competition for foreign direct investment through international agreements
Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, Martin - 2014
We argue that the trend toward international investment agreements (IIAs) with stricter investment rules is driven by competitive diffusion, namely defensive moves of developing countries concerned about foreign direct investment (FDI) diversion in favor of competing host countries. Accounting...
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Need, merit, and politics in multilateral aid allocation : a district-level analysis of World Bank projects in India
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano - 2012
empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project … locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank … or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects …
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