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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP10704
	DP10704 Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance
	Axel Dreher; Roland Hodler; Andreas Fuchs; Paul Raschky; Michael Tierney
发表日期	2015-07-12
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	This article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the political leaders' birth regions and regions populated by the ethnic group to which the leader belongs, controlling for indicators of need and various fixed effects. We have collected data on 117 African leaders' birthplaces and ethnic groups and geocoded 1,650 Chinese development finance projects across 3,097 physical locations committed to Africa over the 2000-2012 period. Our econometric results show that current political leaders' birth regions receive substantially larger financial flows from China than other regions. On the contrary, when we replicate the analysis for the World Bank, our regressions with region-fixed effects show no evidence of such favoritism. For Chinese and World Bank aid alike, we also find no evidence that African leaders direct more aid to areas populated by groups who share their ethnicity, when controlling for region-fixed effects.
主题	Development Economics ; International Trade and Regional Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Africa Aid allocation China Favoritism Foreign aid Georeferenced data Official development assistance Spatial analysis
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp10704
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539535
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Axel Dreher,Roland Hodler,Andreas Fuchs,et al. DP10704 Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance. 2015.