EMPIRICAL ANALYSES OF EMERGING DONORS IN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

Funders: German Research Foundation (DFG)

Partners: Dr. Axel Dreher (Heidelberg University), Dr. Bradley C. Parks (The College of William & Mary), Dr. André Gröger, Dr. Andreas Fuchs (University of Göttingen)

Period: 2020 - 2022

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Abstract: This project intends to contribute to the empirical aid literature by investigating the allocation and effectiveness of development finance provided by emerging actors in the field of development cooperation. The project aims to extend the literature in three important dimensions. First, building on our previous research, we plan to continue to construct new and better data to address data scarcity on emerging aid flows at a detailed level. Second, we intend to focus on the subnational analysis of emerging aid using geocoded data, remote-sensing data, and spatial econometrics methods. This will substantially increase statistical power compared to conventional analyses at the national level. Third, we want to contribute to the growing literature that moves beyond the analysis of GDP to measure economic development, by using more nuanced determinants of human well-being and behavior. In particular, we seek to address the multidimensional nature of a nation’s prosperity, by analyzing the effects of aid on health, migration, and public perception of donor governments.