This paper applies Marcel Mauss' Gift Theory in conjunction with Qin Yaqing's Relational to Chinese foreign aid. It proposed that this approach allows conceptualise aid Africa as a continuous gift cycle initiated Bandung and has been going uninterrupted till today. The argues through the language of reciprocity relationality, China symbolically affords recipient status way Northern does not. re...

We investigate the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural field experiment conducted at a national park in Costa Rica. Contributions made in public in front of the solicitor are 25% higher than contributions made in private. Giving subjects a small gift before requesting a contribution increases the likelihood of a positive contribution. A...