Making Progress on Foreign Aid

Qian, Nancy

doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115553

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“…As humanitarian aid tends to be promised (and given) promptly without much time delay, the variable is not lagged by one period. Its coefficient is close to zero and not significant in our regressions, which may be due to the fact that humanitarian aid represents only a minor fraction of total aid (Qian, 2015).…”

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The true art of the tax deal: Evidence on aid flows and bilateral double tax agreements

Braun

Zagler

2018

World Economy

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Of a total of 2,976 double tax agreements (DTAs), some 60% are signed between a developing and a developed economy. As DTAs shift taxing rights from capital‐importing to capital‐exporting countries, the latter inherently benefit more from the agreements. In this paper, we argue that capital exporters use foreign aid to incite capital importers into signing DTAs. We demonstrate in a theoretical model that in a deal, one country does not trump the other, but that the deal must be mutually beneficial. In the case of an asymmetric DTA, this requires compensation from the capital‐exporting country to the capital‐importing country. Examining DTAs that are signed between donor and recipient countries between 1991 and 2012, and using a fixed effects Poisson model, we find that bilateral foreign aid commitments increase by 22% in the year of the signature of a DTA. Evaluated at the sample mean, this translates into around US$ six million additional aid commitments in a DTA signatory year.

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The true art of the tax deal: Evidence on aid flows and bilateral double tax agreements

Braun

Zagler

2018

World Economy

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“…This is far from well established. The research literature has not settled on a consensus that past development aid has had any positive growth impact on average (Qian 2015). Many rigorous studies fail to detect the slightest growth effect of aid.…”

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Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low‐Income Countries

Clemens¹,

Postel²

2018

Population & Development Rev

103

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“…In this paper, we focus on another important dimension of heterogeneity that has so far been neglected in the literature, namely whether or not the delivery of foreign aid is actually associated with a transfer of resources to the recipient country. We depart from Qian's (2015) observation that a substantial share of the foreign aid reported by OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors is spent within their own borders. This so-called non-transferred aid is usually not considered a separate analytical category, even though it can be expected to differ fundamentally from transferred aid as concerns its impact on outcome variables such as emigration rates.…”

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“…We divide foreign aid into transferred and non-transferred aid based on the classification proposed by Qian (2015). Non-transferred aid comprises all forms of assistance spent within donor borders such as School Training, Imputed Student Costs, Administrative Costs, Development Awareness, Refugee Costs and Debt Relief (see Table A1 for a brief description of each item).…”

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“…Our contribution to the literature is twofold. First, we update and extend Qian's (2015) previous account of the non-transferred aid delivered by OECD donors. In particular, we discuss in some detail how spending on refugees within donor countries evolved after the recent refugee crisis, and why such spending is regarded as part of international development cooperation at all.…”

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Foreign Assistance and Emigration: Accounting for the Role of Non-Transferred Aid

Lanati

Thiele

2019

SSRN Journal

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The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, created in 1992 and currently directed by Professor Brigid Laffan, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research on the major issues facing the process of European integration, European societies and Europe's place in 21 st century global politics.The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes, projects and data sets, in addition to a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration, the expanding membership of the European Union, developments in Europe's neighbourhood and the wider world.For more information: http://eui.eu/rscasThe EUI and the RSCAS are not responsible for the opinion expressed by the author(s). Migration Policy Centre (MPC)The Migration Policy Centre (MPC) is part of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. It conducts advanced policy-oriented research on global migration, asylum and mobility. It serves governance needs at European and global levels, from developing, implementing and monitoring migration-related policies to assessing their impact on the wider economy and society.The MPC bridges research and policy by providing EU and Member States' institutions with policy advice and by fostering dialogue between academics and policy-makers. It seeks to contribute to major issues of migration policy and governance while building links with the other key global challenges and changes.The MPC working paper series, published since April 2013, aims at disseminating high-quality research pertaining to migration and related issues. All EUI members are welcome to submit their work to the series. For further queries, please contact the Migration Policy Centre Secretariat at migration@eui.eu More information can be found on: http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/ Disclaimer: The EUI, RSCAS and MPC are not responsible for the opinion expressed by the author(s). Furthermore, the views expressed in this publication cannot in any circumstances be regarded as the official position of the European Union.For more information: http://eui.eu/rscas Abstract Since policymakers increasingly regard foreign aid as a means to manage international flows of migrants, it is important to obtain accurate empirical evidence on the complex link between aid and migration. Recent research has shown that the impact of foreign assistance on migrant flows is highly heterogenous across aid categories. In this paper, we focus on a dimension of heterogeneity that has so far not been considered in the literature, namely whether or not the delivery of foreign aid is associated with a transfer of resources to the recipient country. We show in a first step that non-transferred aid is quantitatively important, accounting for more than 25 percent of overall aid given by OECD DAC donors in 2016. Running separate gravity-type regressions for ...

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Making Progress on Foreign Aid

Cited by 143 publications

References 49 publications

The true art of the tax deal: Evidence on aid flows and bilateral double tax agreements

The true art of the tax deal: Evidence on aid flows and bilateral double tax agreements

Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low‐Income Countries

Foreign Assistance and Emigration: Accounting for the Role of Non-Transferred Aid

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