The effectiveness of foreign aid in stimulating economic development is a topic of intense
debate in the scientific community and among policy analysts. Numerous empirical studies …

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 …

China is now the lender of first resort for much of the developing world, but Beijing has
fueled speculation among policymakers, scholars, and journalists by shrouding its grant …

This article introduces a new dataset of official financing from China to 138 developing
countries between 2000 and 2014. It investigates whether Chinese development finance …

How do development projects influence the geographic distribution of economic activity
within low-income and middle-income countries? Existing research focuses on the effects of …

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic
growth in a sample of 97 recipient countries over the 1974–2013 period. Our instrument …

We investigate whether foreign aid affects refugee flows from recipient countries. Combining
refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976–2013 period with bilateral Official …

" Areas of limited statehood are ubiquitous. Most states in the contemporary international
system contain areas in which states are too weak to set and enforce rules and/or lack the …

Aid fragmentation is widely recognized as being detrimental to development outcomes. We
reinvestigate the impact of fragmentation in the context of growth, bureaucratic policy, and …

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 …