This paper provides an overview of the small but growing literature on the bilateral foreign aid activities carried out by the five...

This article reviews the literature on the linkages between political tensions, economic diplomacy and international trade in the...

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

US and European policymakers are no longer taking a “wait and see” position on China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)....

Little is known about the firm-level dynamics behind trade responses to political tensions. This article reinvestigates variation in...

One goal of China’s Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China’s growing economic...

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The...

How do development projects influence the geographic distribution of economic activity within low-income and middle-income countries?...

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

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

Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the...

Does the proliferation of aid donors lead to visible changes in the world of foreign assistance? Aid provided by low- and...

We investigate whether foreign aid affects refugee flows from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over...

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

Almost half of the world’s states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries...

Over 300 government members have had the main responsibility for international development cooperation in 23 member countries of the...