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Foreign Aid and Power Play: Political Cycles in World Bank’s Procurement Allocation
Antoine Boucher, Lisa Chauvet, Marin Ferry
2024-10-04
Shifting political influence? UN General Assembly behavior during debt crisis
Martin C. Steinwand
2024-09-30
Elite Capital Flight: An Unintended Side Effect of the Global Financial Safety Net?
Bernhard Reinsberg, Andreas Kern
2024-09-23
Transportation infrastructure and child mortality: Subnational evidence for 22 developing countries
Robin Boot, Ahmed Skali
2024-09-20
Transport infrastructure and the spatial distribution of CO2 emissions
Martin Kleimann, Hans-Jörg Schmerera
2024-01-31
Aiding education? The effect of international aid on local educational enrolment in Nigeria
Roos Haer and Gudrun Østby
2023-11-30
Landmine Clearance and Economic Development: Evidence from Nighttime Lights, Multispectral Satellite Imagery, and Conflict Events in Afghanistan
Christian Baehr, Ariel BenYishay, Rachel Sayers, Kunwar Singh, Madeleine Walker
2023-05-12
China as an International Lender of Last Resort
Sebastian Horn, Bradley C. Parks, Carmen M. Reinhart, Christoph Trebesch
2023-03-28
Break it down: A disaggregated analysis of the effects of aid on stunting
Dick Durevall, Ann-Sofie Isaksson
2023-02-28
Exporting the Tools of Dictatorship: The Politics of China’s Technology Transfers to Africa
Erin Baggott Carter, Brett L. Carter
2022-12-15
Aiding and Abetting: Is donor Official Development Assistance competition greatest in sectors key to Chinese interest?
Daniel Benson, Yundan Gong
2022-10-31
Dueling Aid Regimes: A Conjoint Survey Experiment on Elites’ Development Finance Preferences in 141 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Robert A. Blair, Samantha Custer, Philip Roessler
2022-07-25
IMF Programs, Chinese Lending, and the Political Economy of Leader Survival
Andreas Kern, Bernhard Reinsberg, Patrick E. Shea
2022-04-27
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
What politicians don’t know can hurt you: The effects of information on politicians’ spending decisions
Ryan Jablonski, Brigitte Seim
2022-03-31
Geography, Development, and Power: Parliament Leaders and Local Economies
John Cruzatti C., Christian Bjørnskov, Andrea Sáenz de Viteri
2022-03-02
Environmental Impacts of Chinese Government-Funded Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from Road Building in Cambodia
Christian Baehr, Ariel BenYishay, and Brad Parks
2022-02-28
Discourse Wars and ‘Mask Diplomacy’: China’s Global Image Management in Times of Crisis
Stefan Müller, Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis
2022-01-27
The Domestic Political Consequences of Global Economic Expansion in Rising Powers: Evidence from Survey Experiments in China
Yeling Tan, David A. Steinberg, Daniel McDowell
2022-01-24
Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa
Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Dick Durevall
2021-09-16
Does India Use Development Finance to Compete with China? A Subnational Analysis
Gerda Asmus, Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks
2021-09-10
Discourse Wars and ‘Mask Diplomacy’: China’s Global Image Management in Times of Crisis
Stefan Müller, Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis
2021-06-08
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
Does Decentralization Promote Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Kenya’s Constituencies Development Fund
J. Andrew Harris, Daniel N. Posner
2021-03-29
Chinese Development Aid and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Tanzania
Abraham Lartey
2021-02-26
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
Land Deals and Social Fabrics: The Impact of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions on Social Trust in sub-Saharan Africa
Alexander Leibik, Tim Wegenast
2020-08-05
How Information about Foreign Aid Affects Public Spending Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi
Brigitte Seim, Ryan Jablonski, Johan Ahlbäck
2020-07-20
When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Aid Projects in 183 Countries
Dan Honig, Ranjit Lall, Bradley C. Parks
2020-07-14
Do WHO Epidemic Declarations Matter? Evidence from the Meningitis Belt
Belinda Archibong, Francis Annan, Uche Ekhator-Mobayode
2020-07-09
Evaluating water- and health-related development projects: A cross-project and microbased approach
Christina Greßer, David Stadelmann
2020-07-09
Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level
John Cruzatti, Axel Dreher, Johannes Matzat
2020-05-28
A micro-based approach to evaluate the effect of water supply on health in Uganda
Raymond Frempong, Lucas Kitzmüller, David Stadelmann
2020-05-28
Does Foreign Aid Raise Awareness of Corruption? Evidence from Chinese Aid in 30 African States
Sujin Cha
2020-05-28
Impact of Development Aid on Infant Mortality: Micro-level Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
Didier Wayoro, Léonce Ndikumana
2020-05-28
Comparative Effects of Foreign Direct Investment from China and Other Sources on Africa’s Economic Growth
Marvelous Ngundu, Nicholas Ngepah
2020-01-27
Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh
Samuel Brazys, Minhaj Mahmud, Arya Pillai
2020-01-27
Target at the Right Level: Aid, Spillovers and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Firat Demir, Yi Duan
2020-01-27
The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions
Zareh Asatryan, Annika Havlik
2019-12-02
The Lure of Technocracy? Chinese Aid and Local Preferences for Development Leadership in Africa
Zhenqian Huang, Xun Cao
2019-10-15
Harnessing the Benefits of Transparency: Street-level Discretion, Targetability, and Local Public Service Delivery
Monika Bauhr, Ruth Carlitz
2019-10-05
China and the World Bank: How Contrasting Development Approaches Affect the Stability of African States
Kai Gehring, Lennart Kaplan, Melvin H. L. Wong
2019-09-17
Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early 21st Century
Robert A. Blair, Robert Marty, Philip Roessler
2019-08-22
Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa
Leoné Walters, Manoel Bittencourt, Carolyn Chisadza
2019-07-29
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
Are donors targeting the greatest health needs? Evidence from mining sites in the D.R.Congo
Samuel Lordemus
2019-06-27
Is Sunshine the Best Disinfectant? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Local Corruption
Samuel Brazys, Andreas Kotsadam
2019-06-24
Mining, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security: A Disaggregated Analysis of Sub- Saharan Africa
Tim Wegenast, Jule Beck
2019-06-13
Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance
Andreas Fuchs, Hannes Öhler
2019-05-30
The Effects of Foreign Aid on Rebel Governance: Evidence from a Large-Scale U.S. Aid Program in Syria
Allison Carnegie, Kimberly Howe, Adam Lichtenheld, Dipali Mukhopadhyay
2019-05-30
Evidence on Wealth-Improving Effects of Forest Concessions in Liberia
Suhyun Jung, Chuan Liao, Arun Agrawal, Daniel G. Brown
2019-05-30
Autocratic Aid and Governance: What We Know, Don’t Know, and Need to Know
Bradley C. Parks, Austin M. Strange
2019-05-30
Does Development Aid Address Political Exclusion? A Disaggregated Study of the Location of Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa
Siri Aas Rustad, Kristian Hoelscher, Andreas Kotsadam, Gudrun Østby, Henrik Urdal
2019-04-30
Closing the Broken Feedback Loop: Can Responsive Aid Strengthen State Legitimacy?
Bradley C. Parks, Matthew DiLorenzo, Daniel Aboagye
2019-04-30
Building Bridges or Breaking Bonds? The Belt and Road Initiative and Foreign Aid Competition
Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati, Yuanxin Li, Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis
2019-04-30
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
Aid and Conflict at the Sub-National Level: Evidence from World Bank and Chinese Development Projects in Africa
Kai Gehring, Lennart Kaplan, and Melvin H. L. Wong
2019-03-08
Grassroots Image Management: Confucius Institutes and Media Perceptions of China
Samuel Brazys, Alexander Dukalskis
2019-01-10
Top Lights: Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development
Richard Bluhm, Melanie Krause
2018-12-11
International Diffusion of Development Knowledge: A Field Experiment on Officials' Responses to Impact Evidence in Peru
Darren Hawkins, Aubriana Wolferts, Daniel L. Nielson
2018-09-30
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
Estimating Spatial Treatment Effects: An Application to Base Closures and Aid Delivery in Afghanistan
Kosuke Imai, Jason Lyall, Yuki Shiraito, Xiaolin Yang
2018-08-30
Honor among Chiefs: An Experiment on Monitoring and Diversion Among Traditional Leaders in Malawi
Elizabeth Carlson, Brigitte Seim
2018-08-29
China in Africa: Competition for Traditional Development Finance Institutions?
Chris Humphrey, Katharina Michaelowa
2018-07-25
Implementation Level in World Bank Projects: National vs. Local Allocation of Power
Silvia Marchesi, Tania Masi
2018-07-24
The Effects of Chinese Aid on State Legitimacy in Africa: Cross-National and Sub-National Evidence from Surveys, Survey Experiments, and Behavioral Games
Robert A. Blair, Philip Roessler
2018-07-23
The Political Geography of Government Projects: Evidence from +/- 40,000 Projects in Ghana
Nahomi Ichino, Martin Williams, Erik Wibbels
2018-06-30
Secondary School Electrification in Western Kenya
Susanna Berkouwer, Kenneth Lee, Michael Walker
2018-06-29
Bypass Aid and Perceptions of Local Government Performance and Legitimacy
Kate Baldwin, Matthew S. Winters
2018-06-28
The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries
Vera Z. Eichenauer, Andreas Fuchs, Lutz Brückner
2018-06-26
The Donor Footprint and Gender Gaps
Maria Perrotta Berlin, Evelina Bonnier, Anders Olofsgård
2018-06-25
Aid Curse with Chinese Characteristics? Chinese Development Flows and Economic Reforms
Samuel Brazys, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
2018-05-25
The Impact of Health Service Delivery on Political Support: Evidence from the Nigerian Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme
Adanna Chukwama, Thomas J. Bossert
2018-05-24
Chinese Development Assistance and Household Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bruno Martorano, Laura Metzger, Marco Sanfilippo
2018-05-23
Geostatistical Tools to Map the Interaction between Development Aid and Indices of Need
Claudio Bosco, Natalia Tejedor-Garavito, Daniele de Rigo, Andrew J. Tatem, Carla Pezzulo, Richard Wood, Heather Chamberlain, Tom Bird
2018-05-18
Breaking the Clientelistic Voting Equilibrium: The Joint Importance of Salience and Coordination
Claire Adida, Jessica Gottlieb, Eric Kramon, Gweneth McClendon
2017-11-30
Lighting the Path: The Influence of Historical Christian Missions on Modern-day Development Aid Allocation in Africa
Matteo Alpino, Eivind M. Hammersmark
2017-10-26
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
How Transparency Affects Distributional Politics: A Field Experiment among Elected Incumbents in Malawi
Ryan Jablonski, Brigitte Seim
2017-10-01
A Primer on Geospatial Impact Evaluation Methods, Tools, and Applications
Ariel BenYishay, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler, Carrie Dolan, Seth Goodman, Bradley Parks, Jeffery Tanner, Silke Heuser, Geeta Batra, Anupam Anand
2017-09-01
Escaping the Valley of Disengagement: Two Field Experiments on Motivating Citizens to Monitor Public Goods
Mark T. Buntaine, Daniel L. Nielson, Jacob T. Skaggs
2017-06-01
When Do Global Performance Assessments Influence Policy Behavior? Micro-Evidence from the 2014 Reform Efforts Survey
Bradley C. Parks, Takaaki Masaki
2017-05-02
Development Aid and Infant Mortality
Andreas Kotsadam, Gudrun Østby, Siri Aas Rustad, Andreas Forø Tollefsen, Henrik Urdal
2017-05-01
geoSIMEX: A Generalized Approach To Modeling Spatial Imprecision
Daniel Runfola, Robert Marty, Seth Goodman, Michael Lefew, Ariel BenYishay
2017-04-01
Targeted Foreign Aid and International Migration: Is Development Promotion an Effective Immigration Policy?
Jonas Gamso, Farhod Yuldashev
2017-03-03
Foreign Aid and Growth at the Subnational Level
Andrea Civelli, Andrew Horowitz, Arilton Teixeira
2017-03-02
Natural Resource Sector FDI and Growth in Post-Conflict Settings: Subnational Evidence from Liberia
Jonas B. Bunte, Harsh Desai, Kanio Gbala, Brad Parks, Daniel Miller Runfola
2017-02-01
Forest Cover Impacts of Chinese Development Projects in Ecologically Sensitive Areas
Ariel BenYishay, Bradley Parks, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler
2016-12-01
Fueling Conflict? (De)Escalation and Bilateral Aid
Richard Bluhm, Martin Gassebner, Sarah Langlotz, Paul Schaudt
2016-11-02
Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence
Bradley C. Parks, Takaaki Masaki, Jörg Faust, Stefan Leiderer
2016-11-01
Repression and Foreign Aid in Autocracies: Exploiting Debt Relief Negotiations in Post-Cold War Africa
Brett L. Carter
2016-07-02
Do Domestic Politics Shape U.S. Influence in the World Bank?
Erasmus Kersting, Christopher Kilby
2016-07-01
Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto
2016-06-01
The Dragon's Curse? China, the World Bank, and Perceptions of Corruption in Tanzania
Gina Kelly, Samuel Brazys, Johan A. Elkink
2016-05-04
What Determines Earmarked Funding to International Development Organizations?
Vera Z. Eichenauer, Bernhard Reinsberg
2016-05-03
Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict
Daniel Strandow, Michael G. Findley, Joseph K. Young
2016-05-02
Elite and Mass Support for Foreign Aid Versus Government Programs: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Michael G. Findley, Adam S. Harris, Helen V. Milner, Daniel Nielson
2016-05-01
Indigenous Land Rights and Deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Ariel BenYishay, Silke Heuser, Daniel Runfola, Rachel Trichler
2016-04-01
Putting Money to Mouths: Rewarding and Punishing Human Rights Behaviors
Darren Hawkins, Jay Goodliffe
2016-03-01
The Impacts of World Bank Development Projects on Sites of High Biodiversity Importance
Graeme M. Buchanan, Bradley C. Parks, Paul F. Donald, Brian F. O'Donnell, Daniel Runfola, John P. Swaddle, Lukasz Tracewski, Stuart H.M. Butchart
2016-02-01
Sub-national Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness: Impact of Aid on Health Outcomes in Uganda
Tonny Odokonyero, Alex Ijjo, Robert Marty, Tony Muhumuza, Godfrey Owot Moses
2015-12-03
Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, and Domestic Government Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Simone Dietrich, Minhaj Mahmud, Matthew S. Winters
2015-12-01
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
Transparency and System Support in Peru
Darren Hawkins, Lucas Brook, Ian Hansen, Neal Hoopes, Taylor Rawson
2015-09-01
'Ground-Truthing' Chinese Development Finance in Africa: Field Evidence from South Africa and Uganda
Edwin Muchapondwa, Daniel Nielson, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange, Michael J. Tierney
2015-08-01
Doing Harm by Doing Good: The Negative Externalities of Humanitarian Aid Provision During Civil Conflict
Reed M. Wood, Christopher Sullivan
2015-07-01
Do Aid Donors Specialize and Coordinate within Recipient Countries? The Case of Malawi
Peter Nunnenkamp, Albena Sotirova, Rainer Thiele
2015-06-01
Building a Stronger System for Tracking Nutrition Sensitive Spending
Scott B. Ickes, Rachel B. Trichler, Bradley C. Parks
2015-05-04
Aiming at the Wrong Targets: The Difficulty of Improving Domestic Institutions with International Aid
Benjamin P. Buch, Mark T. Buntaine, Bradley C. Parks
2015-05-01
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
Titling Community Land to Prevent Deforestation: No Reduction in Forest Loss in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador
Mark T. Buntaine, Stuart E. Hamilton, Marco Millones
2014-10-02
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