Andreas Fuchs

Professor of Development Economics at the University of Goettingen

mail@andreas-fuchs.net

Summary

Education

Background

Andreas Fuchs is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Goettingen, Germany. Before having joined the University of Goettingen, he was professor at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2018-2019), senior researcher at Heidelberg University (2013-2018), and postdoc at Princeton University (2012-2013). He has been affiliated with AidData since 2012. His research analyzes trade, investment and development policies with quantitative methods and a special focus on China and other emerging economies.

February 6, 2018

Rogue agent or team player? Beijing’s motivations for aid provision

A new study in ISQ pinpoints the factors that motivate Beijing to provide aid and other forms of government financing to Africa.

April 18, 2016

Reflections on this week’s coverage in The Economist

In “Apples and Dragon Fruits,” we analyze the factors that motivate China’s provision of official financing from China to Africa. One of the core findings is highlighted in this week’s edition of The Economist. We’d like to take this opportunity to clarify our findings.

February 6, 2013

India - The Needy Donor

Despite rapid economic growth and prosperity, many regions and communities in India continue to be severely underdeveloped. Three factors are characteristic of India’s aid allocation behavior.

Journal Article

Does India Use Development Finance to Compete With China? A Subnational Analysis

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Gerda Asmus-Bluhm, Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks

2024-02-14

Methodology

Tracking Chinese Development Finance: An Application of AidData’s TUFF 3.0 Methodology

Samantha Custer, Axel Dreher, Thai-Binh Elston, Brooke Escobar, Rory Fedorochko, Andreas Fuchs, Siddhartha Ghose, Joyce Jiahui Lin, Ammar A. Malik, Bradley C. Parks, Kyra Solomon, Austin Strange, Michael J. Tierney, Lydia Vlasto, Katherine Walsh, Fei Wang, Lincoln Zaleski, and Sheng Zhang

2023-11-06

Book

Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China's Overseas Development Program

Cambridge University Press

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Austin Strange, and Michael J. Tierney

2022-05-05

Working Paper

117

Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance

Lukas Wellner, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Austin Strange

2022-04-05

Journal Article

Democracy and Aid Donorship

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Angelika J. Budjan, Andreas Fuchs

2021-11-01

Methodology

Tracking Chinese Development Finance: An Application of AidData’s TUFF 2.0 Methodology

Samantha Custer, Axel Dreher, Thai-Binh Elston, Andreas Fuchs, Siddharta Ghose, Joyce Jiahui Lin, Ammar A. Malik, Bradley C. Parks, Brooke Russell, Kyra Solomon, Austin Strange, Michael J. Tierney, Katherine Walsh, Lincoln Zaleski, Sheng Zhang

2021-09-29

Working Paper

110

Does India Use Development Finance to Compete with China? A Subnational Analysis

Gerda Asmus, Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks

2021-09-10

Working Paper

108

Mask Wars: China's Exports of Medical Goods in Times of COVID-19

Andreas Fuchs, Lennart Kaplan, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Sebastian S. Schmidt, Felix Turbanisch, Feicheng Wang

2021-06-08

Journal Article

The effects of trade, aid, and investment on China's image in Latin America

Journal of Comparative Economics

Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Lutz Brückner

2021-06-01

Journal Article

Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Austin Strange, Michael J. Tierney

2021-05-01

Journal Article

Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects

World Development

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Roland Hodler, Bradley C. Parks, Paul A. Raschky, Michael J. Tierney

2021-01-06

Journal Article

Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake

World Development

Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Sven Kunze, Eric Strobl

2020-12-01

Working Paper

103

Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

Richard Bluhm, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Austin M. Strange, Michael J. Tierney

2020-08-19

Journal Article

Does private aid follow the flag? An empirical analysis of humanitarian assistance

The World Economy

Andreas Fuchs, Hannes Öhler

2020-08-18

Working Paper

Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Roland Hodler, Bradley C. Parks, Paul A. Raschky, Michael J. Tierney

2019-07-15

Working Paper

Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance

Andreas Fuchs, Hannes Öhler

2019-05-30

Working Paper

Distortions in Aid Allocation of United Nations Flash Appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Sven Kunze, Eric Strobl

2019-04-30

Journal Article

African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance

Journal of Development Economics

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Roland Hodler, Bradley C. Parks, Paul A. Raschky, Michael J. Tierney

2019-04-23

Working Paper

Democracy and Aid Donorship

Andreas Fuchs, Angelika Müller

2018-12-12

Working Paper

Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

Richard Bluhm, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Austin Strange, Michael Tierney

2018-09-11

Working Paper

The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries

Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Lutz Brückner

2018-06-26

Journal Article

Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing from China to Africa

International Studies Quarterly

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C Parks, Austin M Strange, Michael J Tierney

2018-02-01

Working Paper

Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange, Michael J. Tierney

2017-10-10

Working Paper

BRICS and Foreign Aid

Gerda Asmus, Andreas Fuchs, Angelika Müller

2017-08-01

Journal Article

Tracking Underreported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid–Conflict Nexus Revisited

Austin M. Strange, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney

2017-05-01

Journal Article

Rogue aid? An empirical analysis of China's aid allocation

Axel Dreher and Andreas Fuchs

2016-03-22

Working Paper

Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing From China to Africa

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange, Michael J. Tierney

2015-10-01

Working Paper

Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance

Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Roland Hodler, Bradley C. Parks, Paul A. Raschky, Michael J. Tierney

2014-11-01

Methodology

China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection

Center for Global Development

Austin Strange, Bradley Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, Vijaya Ramachandran

2013-04-29