The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a sample of 27 recipient countries to assess the claim of...

Development assistance has been criticized for a lack of coordination between aid donors. This paper argues that competition for export markets and political support prevents donor countries from closer coordination of aid activities. To test these hypotheses, we perform logit and fractional...

Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the location choices differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo Maximum...

We investigate the importance of geo-strategic and commercial motives for the allocation of German aid to 138 countries over the 1973-2010 period. We find that geo-strategic and – less robustly – commercial motives matter. When we relate geo-strategic and commercial motives to the political...

Die Analyse wirtschaftspolitischer Fehlentwicklungen in hochverschuldeten Ländern der Dritten Welt zeigt, daß die internationale Kreditwürdigkeit nur dann wiedergewonnen werden kann, wenn die Regierungen der Schuldnerländer umfassende und konsistente Wirtschaftsreformen in Kraft setzen,...

Insbesondere für Entwicklungsländer, die im Ausland bereits hoch verschuldet sind, ist es dringend erforderlich, vermehrt inländische Ersparnisse zu mobilisieren und die Effizienz der heimischen Entwicklungsfinanzierung zu steigern. Augenblicklich scheint eine wachstumsorientierte Anpassung...