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

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

What determines the foreign aid effort of donor countries? We review the existing literature on donors’ aid budgets and examine which...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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