Although there is evidence that CO¬2-efficiency enhancing innovations in one country diffuse into other countries to contribute to the goals of climate change mitigation, very little is known about the conditions under which such international spillovers are most likely to take place. Our...

Arguments about the "positive" influence of growing transnational linkages have typically focused on their role in diffusing environmentally-superior innovations which help to raise countries' environment-efficiency. The present article empirically tests these claims by examining whether...

Aid flows continue to be volatile and unpredictable, even though it is widely accepted that this erodes the effectiveness of foreign aid. We argue that fragmented donor-recipient relationships, notably the large number of minor aid relations that tend to be associated with donors’ desire to...