Tag: Foreign Aid and Investments
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Trap or Opportunity: The Impact of Belt and Road Initiative Loans on Recipient Countries’ Development
By Ellis Shen Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of loans associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on the growth and development of recipient countries. While the BRI holds potential for enhancing economic development in underdeveloped regions, concerns have been raised regarding the effects of BRI loans on overall recipient country development. Existing…
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Politicizing Foreign Aid: A Review of Political Partisanship’s Impact on Foreign Aid Flows
By Trevor Norton, Timel Rodriguez, and Marzieh Kazemi Abstract: This study examines the domestic factors influencing U.S. foreign aid disbursements, the largest global donor. We challenge existing theories that emphasize domestic political influences, such as partisanship and economic conditions, by replicating and extending the study by Tingley (2010). Unlike previous research focusing on aid effectiveness…
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More Bang for Your Buck? Earmarked Funding Stringency and Project Costs
By Hannah Bray Abstract: This capstone project proposes a research plan built on the emerging literature of earmarked funding in international relations. Earmarked funding (EF) is both on the rise and increasingly stratified between funds that are stringently earmarked and those that are less stringently earmarked. Previous works have found a negative relationship between EF…
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Buhaug (2006) Replication and Extension: The Addition of Foreign Aid
By Hannah Bray and Kaitlyn Andreala Abstract: Buhaug (2006) contributes both empirically and theoretically to the literature on civil war onset by disaggregating civil wars into two types based on rebel motivations determined by their capability. The puzzle Buhaug (2006) addressed relates to the mixed findings of ethnic fractionalization as a variable in the previous…
