[HTML][HTML] Aid effectiveness and donor motives

A Dreher, V Lang, B Reinsberg - World Development, 2024 - Elsevier
A vast literature evaluates the effectiveness of development aid, often reaching sobering
conclusions. We argue that a key shortcoming of this literature is the focus on a narrow …

Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development: Kuznets, Piketty and the great policy reversal

S Asongu - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This survey essay reviews close to 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve
sustainable and inclusive development, foreign aid should not orient developing countries …

[HTML][HTML] Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries

R Bluhm, A Dreher, A Fuchs, BC Parks… - Journal of Urban …, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial distribution of
economic activity within subnational regions across a large number of developing countries …

Empowering the powerless: does access to energy improve income inequality?

AO Acheampong, J Dzator, M Shahbaz - Energy Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
The 2030 agenda for sustainable development makes it a priority for countries to reduce
income inequality while ensuring that people have access to affordable, reliable, and …

[HTML][HTML] Development aid and infant mortality. Micro-level evidence from Nigeria

A Kotsadam, G Østby, SA Rustad, AF Tollefsen… - World Development, 2018 - Elsevier
While there is a vast literature studying the effects of official development aid (ODA) on
economic growth, there are far fewer comparative studies addressing how aid affects health …

The impact of economic sanctions on income inequality of target states

SK Afesorgbor, R Mahadevan - World Development, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we draw on established theoretical work to analyze empirically which
segments of the population in the target states bear the most cost when economic sanctions …

[图书][B] Busted sanctions: Explaining why economic sanctions fail

BR Early - 2015 - books.google.com
Powerful countries like the United States regularly employ economic sanctions as a tool for
promoting their foreign policy interests. Yet this foreign policy tool has an uninspiring track …

The effect of foreign aid on corruption: A quantile regression approach

K Okada, S Samreth - Economics letters, 2012 - Elsevier
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The impact of foreign direct investment, foreign aid and trade on poverty reduction: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries

FO Anetor, E Esho, G Verhoef - Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Despite postulations on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign aid, and trade
on growth, empirical evidence from extant research has been mixed. The focus of recent …

Does foreign aid impede economic complexity in developing countries?

B Kamguia, S Tadadjeu, C Miamo, H Njangang - International Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Foreign aid is one of the most important policy tools that developed countries use to help
poor countries improve population well-being and facilitate economic and institutional …