Axel Dreher

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether foreign aid affects refugee flows from recipient countries and found no evidence that aid reduces worldwide refugee outflows or flows to donor countries in the short-term, but observed long-run effects after four three-year periods, which appear to be driven by lagged positive effects of aid on growth.

TL;DR: This article found that political influence in aid allocation may impair aid's effectiveness only when the recipient country faces a weak macroeconomic position and temporary membership on the UN Security Council or the World Bank Executive Board.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the determinants of each crisis separately and then estimated links between both crises employing instrumental variables techniques, finding that currency crises significantly increase the risk of contemporaneous debt crises and vice versa.

TL;DR: This paper found that aid tends to be less effective when political ideology differs between the donor and the recipient, and that political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive problems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether countries with poor human rights records oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly and find that these countries aim to weaken resolutions since they could be future targets of these policies.