This paper explores the influence of Japan and the United States over the geographic
distribution of Asian Development Bank funds. Estimation using panel data for less …

South Korea, the newest member to join the OECD's Development Assistance Committee,
has signaled that it will become a major donor of official development assistance (ODA) …

Through case studies and empirical analysis, scholars have uncovered convincing evidence
that individual donors influence lending decisions of international financial institutions (IFIs) …

This paper investigates the effect of military spending and public debt on economic growth in
Cameroon over the period 1980–2021. Due to the nature of the data, the methodology …

The authors apply the theory of collective action and alliance behavior first developed by
Olson and Zeckhauser and later extended by Sandler in a series of studies to test whether …

Objective. Three competing explanations for the distribution of Japan's ODA in Asia are
empirically examined in this paper. The first explanation hypothesizes that Japan reacts to …

Japan has increasingly emphasized democracy assistance since the mid-2000s, such that it
now constitutes a major part of Japan's foreign policy. This approach is an ostensible …

This edited volume puts forth a theoretically and empirically rigorous analysis of Japanese
foreign policy. Nine case studies on Japan's security, economic, and environmental policies …

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I present a foreign policy decision-making theory that accounts for why US food aid is used
strategically when other more powerful economic aid tools are at the disposal of …