When is Foreign Aid Effective in Fighting Terrorism? Threshold Evidence

When is Foreign Aid Effective in Fighting Terrorism? Threshold Evidence

Building on previous literature, we assess when foreign aid is effective in fighting terrorism using quantile regressions on a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilteral, multilateral and total aid indicators are used whereas terrorism includes: domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism dynamics. We consistently establish that foreign aid (bilateral, multilat...

Crowding out Effect of Foreign Aid in Selected Developing Countries: Panel Data Evidence

How Is Foreign Aid Spent ?

It is notoriously difficult to measure the causal impact of foreign aid on the economy. The “micro-macro paradox” (Paul Mosley 1986) renders it impossible to add up the effects of individual aid projects, since foreign aid is fungible. Thus, researchers are left to conduct cross-country analyses to capture the effect of aid on economic growth and other outcomes net of the recipient governments’...

When Is Selection Effective?

Deleterious alleles can reach high frequency in small populations because of random fluctuations in allele frequency. This may lead, over time, to reduced average fitness. In this sense, selection is more "effective" in larger populations. Recent studies have considered whether the different demographic histories across human populations have resulted in differences in the number, distribution,...

Race, Paternalism, and Foreign Aid: Evidence from U.S. Public Opinion

Virtually all previous studies of domestic economic redistribution find white Americans to be less enthusiastic about welfare for black recipients than for white recipients. When it comes to foreign aid and international redistribution across racial lines, I argue that prejudice manifests not in an uncharitable, resentful way but in a paternalistic way because intergroup contact is minimal and ...