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Aid, infrastructure, and FDI : assessing the transmission channel with a new index of infrastructure

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014

We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance. By performing 3SLS estimations we explicitly account...

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Is aid for infrastructure effective? : a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach

Donaubauer, Julian; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

The effects of foreign aid on the endowment of recipient countries with infrastructure have received surprisingly little attention in the empirical literature. This paper addresses this question by performing difference-in-difference-in-differences estimations, with the treatment defined as...

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Aid, infrastructure, and FDI : assessing the transmission channel with a new index of infrastructure

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015

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Birds of a Feather : Fiscal Conditionality and Recipient Country Ownership in Aid Allocation

Andrianarison, Francis - 2009

inflows as the mechanism for mitigating school user fees constraining education access in recipient countries …

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Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We … of the link between government expenditure and education, (iii) the quality of institutions in the recipient country, and …

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Gesture politics or real commitment? : gender inequality and the allocation of aid

Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - 2013

concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education … donors indeed give more aid to countries with larger gender gaps ('need') in education, health, employment, or women's rights …, or rather reward improvements in those indicators ('merit'). We find some evidence that gender gaps in education and …

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Assessing budget support with statistical impact evaluation : a methodological proposal

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Hoop, Kobus de - 2008 - Forthcoming in World Development

illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …

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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel (contributor) - 2010

As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...

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Geopolitics, aid and growth

Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2013

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries ́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracyś...

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Geopolitics, aid and growth

Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2014

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the aid has...

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