Elite capture of foreign aid: Evidence from offshore bank accounts

JJ Andersen, N Johannesen… - Journal of Political …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-…
with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and …

Elite capture of foreign aid: Evidence from offshore bank accounts

N Johannesen, JJ Andersen, B Rijkers - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
… Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid
This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide …

Elite capture of foreign aid

JJ Andersen, N Johannesen, B Rijkers - … on Taxation and Minutes of the …, 2020 - JSTOR
… time of aid disbursements belong to economic elites. Recent … documents that offshore bank
accounts are overwhelmingly … other foreign banking centers; however, there is no evidence

Aid diversion, accountability and questions unanswered: contextualising the World Bank working paper on offshore capture of foreign aid

S Damianos - Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2021 - emerald.com
… to elite capture of foreign aid: the codified secrecy of offshoreElite Capture of Foreign Aid:
Evidence from Offshore Bank … a portion of foreign aid is captured in offshore bank accounts. …

Effect of Enhanced Financial Transparency on Foreign Aid Captured by Elites

J Žalman - 2023 - dspace.cuni.cz
… between aid disbursements and offshore deposits and find … the empirical evidence on the
benefits of foreign aid is mixed … the role of tax havens in facilitating elite capture of foreign aid. …

African Elites as Clients of the Offshore World

G Moyo - Africa in the Global Economy: Capital Flight, Enablers …, 2024 - Springer
… This chapter therefore tells a story of elite capture of resources … There is evidence across the
continent that the African elite … It is widely accepted that foreign aid has been deployed as a …

Killing a Country and Getting Away with It: Neopatrimonialism and Incurable Corruption by Political Elites Linked to International Development Aid

YG Harnois, S Gagnon - Journal of Developing Societies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
evidence-gathering can be enhanced to ensure that maximum sanctions are taken against
corrupt political elite… of satisfying results, such as foreign aid funds retained at various layers …

[HTML][HTML] Crash for cash: Offshore financial destinations and IMF programs

A Kern, E Nosrati, B Reinsberg, D Sevinc - European Journal of Political …, 2023 - Elsevier
… we show that elite wealth in offshore bank accounts has a first… foreign aid, which has long
noted that significant amounts of … Overall, we find supporting evidence that elite capital flight …

The hidden trillions: Secrecy, corruption, and the offshore interface

J Christensen - Crime, Law and Social Change, 2012 - Springer
… and OECD states, but there is no evidence that these efforts have yielded any useful results
… havens than to international aid, adding up to billions of dollars, which could aid greatly in …

Researching Africa and the offshore world

RS De Oliveira - The Journal of Modern African Studies, 2022 - cambridge.org
… real estate and bank accounts through the concealment of beneficial ownership, and the
perpetuation of family … ‘Elite capture of foreign aid: evidence from offshore bank accounts.’ …