This paper employs a meta-regression analysis of 1,149 estimates from 29 studies to take
stock of the empirical literature on Chinese aid effectiveness. After accommodating …

Foreign aid relationships are valuable to donors as a means of improving development
outcomes and influencing recipient country policy. The emergence of new donors can lead …

Official development finance from China has risen tremendously in the past two decades
across the globe, including in the world's poorest continent Africa. How has this sudden …

To meet its rapidly growing electricity demand, Vietnam envisages ramping up its coal-fired
generation capacity substantially. Realizing all coal-fired capacity additions that are planned …

Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in
reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, start, and end …

Scholars studying foreign assistance differ over whether multilateral aid is preferable to
bilateral aid for promoting development, but nearly all build their cases primarily on highly …

Resources for foreign aid come under attack when parties that care little for international
affairs come to power. Internationally focused parties of the left and right, however, prefer to …

We account for competition for export markets among donor countries of foreign aid by
analyzing spatial dependence in aid allocation. Employing sector-specific aid data, we find …

We examine the impact of China's commercially oriented forms of state financing, the
dominant type of Chinese aid, on voting alignment between recipient countries and China in …

Foreign aid to regional international organizations (RIOs) has increased tremendously in
recent decades. The vast differences between RIOs give rise to the question of why some …