Almost half of the world's states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article introduces a new dataset on aid giving covering all countries in the world, both rich and...

China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new...

Using repeated cross-sectional survey data, we analyze whether China's growing economic engagement in Latin America has an effect on citizens’ perceptions of China within 18 Latin American countries over the 2002–2013 period. Our...

This paper introduces a new dataset of official financing — including foreign aid and other forms of concessional and non-concessional state financing

We examine the role of local need and various distortions in the design and implementation of United Nations flash appeal triggered in response to the d

Andreas Fuchs äußert sich zum Vorwurf gegenüber China, Entwicklungsländer beim Infrastrukturausbau in eine Schuldenfalle zu locken.

This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. We examine whe

We examine the role of local need and various distortions in the design and implementation of United Nations flash appeal triggered in response to the d

We investigate whether foreign aid affects refugee flows from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976–2013 p