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From an economic perspective, official financiers, private... Journal Article Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Missing the Target? World Development 10/2011 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which... Journal Article How to Attract Donations: The Case of US NGOs in International Development Journal of Development Studies 11/2012 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We assess the determinants of private donations across a large sample of US based NGOs with foreign aid activities. Our results show that... Journal Article Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid Kyklos 02/2012 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations... Journal Article Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs: A Panel Tobit Analysis Economic Development and Cultural Change 07/2012 Download Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler ... Aid by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is still widely believed to be superior to official development assistance (ODA). However, the... Journal Article Does Conditionality Work? A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme European Economic Review 01/2012 Hannes Öhler, Peter Nunnenkamp, Axel Dreher Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid conditional on the reform... Journal Article Aid Allocation through Various Official and Private Channels: Need, Merit and Self-Interest as Motives of German Donors World Development 01/2011 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to assess... Blog Post Fighting corruption through performance-based aid VoxEU 11/2010 Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler Little appears to have changed in foreign aid business since former World Bank President Wolfensohn highlighted corruption as a major... Journal Article Donor Coordination and Specialization: Did the Paris Declaration Make a Difference? Review of World Economics 08/2013 Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler, Rainer Thiele We assess whether bilateral and multilateral donors of foreign aid specialized and coordinated their activities with other donors as agreed in... Journal Article Need, Merit, and Politics in Multilateral Aid Allocation: A District-level Analysis of World Bank Projects in India Review of Development Economics 01/2017 Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler, Maximiliano Sosa Andrés We assess the targeting of foreign aid within recipient countries by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s... Journal Article Needs-based Targeting or Favoritism? The Regional Allocation of Multilateral Aid Within Recipient Countries Kyklos 06/2014 Hannes Öhler, Peter Nunnenkamp The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored. We use geocoded data on the location of aid projects... Journal Article Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do! Economics Letters 01/2012 Download Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We empirically analyze how other aid agencies, within and outside the United States, reacted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). We... Journal Article Why Donors of Foreign Aid Do Not Coordinate: The Role of Competition for Export Markets and Political Support World Economy 02/2015 Andreas Fuchs, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler Development assistance has been criticized for a lack of coordination between aid donors. This paper argues that competition for export... Journal Article Does private aid follow the flag? An empirical analysis of humanitarian assistance The World Economy 03/2021 Andreas Fuchs, Hannes Öhler This paper compares the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over... Working Paper Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance Kiel Working Papers 04/2019 Download Andreas Fuchs, Hannes Öhler Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the allocation... Working Paper Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid Kiel Working Papers 07/2010 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations... Working Paper US based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: Survival of the Fittest? Kiel Working Papers 07/2011 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler, Tillmann Schwörer The non-distribution constraint of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) would be harder, and financiers as well as recipients could expect... Working Paper Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Missing the Target? Kiel Working Papers 08/2010 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which... Working Paper Donations to US Based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: How (Un-)Informed Are Private Donors? Kiel Working Papers 02/2011 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler Apart from scaling up foreign aid by NGOs, informed choices of private donors could also encourage an efficient and targeted use of NGO funds... Working Paper Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do! Kiel Working Papers 03/2010 Download Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush... 1 2 » Selected Publication Series Kiel Working Papers Kiel Policy Briefs Kiel Institute Economic Outlook Kiel Focus Review of World Economics
Journal Article US based NGOs in International Development: Financial and Economic Determinants of Survival World Development 01/2013 Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler, Tillmann Schwörer The accountability of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has various dimensions. From an economic perspective, official financiers, private...
Journal Article Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Missing the Target? World Development 10/2011 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which...
Journal Article How to Attract Donations: The Case of US NGOs in International Development Journal of Development Studies 11/2012 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We assess the determinants of private donations across a large sample of US based NGOs with foreign aid activities. Our results show that...
Journal Article Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid Kyklos 02/2012 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations...
Journal Article Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs: A Panel Tobit Analysis Economic Development and Cultural Change 07/2012 Download Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler ... Aid by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is still widely believed to be superior to official development assistance (ODA). However, the...
Journal Article Does Conditionality Work? A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme European Economic Review 01/2012 Hannes Öhler, Peter Nunnenkamp, Axel Dreher Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid conditional on the reform...
Journal Article Aid Allocation through Various Official and Private Channels: Need, Merit and Self-Interest as Motives of German Donors World Development 01/2011 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to assess...
Blog Post Fighting corruption through performance-based aid VoxEU 11/2010 Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler Little appears to have changed in foreign aid business since former World Bank President Wolfensohn highlighted corruption as a major...
Journal Article Donor Coordination and Specialization: Did the Paris Declaration Make a Difference? Review of World Economics 08/2013 Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler, Rainer Thiele We assess whether bilateral and multilateral donors of foreign aid specialized and coordinated their activities with other donors as agreed in...
Journal Article Need, Merit, and Politics in Multilateral Aid Allocation: A District-level Analysis of World Bank Projects in India Review of Development Economics 01/2017 Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler, Maximiliano Sosa Andrés We assess the targeting of foreign aid within recipient countries by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s...
Journal Article Needs-based Targeting or Favoritism? The Regional Allocation of Multilateral Aid Within Recipient Countries Kyklos 06/2014 Hannes Öhler, Peter Nunnenkamp The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored. We use geocoded data on the location of aid projects...
Journal Article Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do! Economics Letters 01/2012 Download Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We empirically analyze how other aid agencies, within and outside the United States, reacted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). We...
Journal Article Why Donors of Foreign Aid Do Not Coordinate: The Role of Competition for Export Markets and Political Support World Economy 02/2015 Andreas Fuchs, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler Development assistance has been criticized for a lack of coordination between aid donors. This paper argues that competition for export...
Journal Article Does private aid follow the flag? An empirical analysis of humanitarian assistance The World Economy 03/2021 Andreas Fuchs, Hannes Öhler This paper compares the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over...
Working Paper Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance Kiel Working Papers 04/2019 Download Andreas Fuchs, Hannes Öhler Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the allocation...
Working Paper Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid Kiel Working Papers 07/2010 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations...
Working Paper US based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: Survival of the Fittest? Kiel Working Papers 07/2011 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler, Tillmann Schwörer The non-distribution constraint of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) would be harder, and financiers as well as recipients could expect...
Working Paper Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Missing the Target? Kiel Working Papers 08/2010 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which...
Working Paper Donations to US Based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: How (Un-)Informed Are Private Donors? Kiel Working Papers 02/2011 Download Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler Apart from scaling up foreign aid by NGOs, informed choices of private donors could also encourage an efficient and targeted use of NGO funds...
Working Paper Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do! Kiel Working Papers 03/2010 Download Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush...