Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth : The Impact of UN Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the aid is committed, w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dreher, Axel, Eichenauer, Vera Z., Gehring, Kai
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32777