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

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

This article provides a survey of the aid budget literature and examines the determinants of the development aid efforts of 22 DAC members...

Development assistance has been criticized for a lack of coordination between aid donors. This paper argues that competition for export...

Aid given by non-DAC donors (“new donors”) gains increasing attention. The recent literature moved beyond the presentation of qualitative...

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

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...

Using repeated cross-sectional survey data, we analyze whether China's growing economic engagement in Latin America has an effect on citizens’...

China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial...

This paper compares the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over...

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

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

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

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