Does foreign aid corrupt

By José Tavares. 2003

433 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Development, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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In Development

1. A. Philippopoulos
2. Sarantis Kalyvitis
3. George Economides
4. Sam Jones
5. Sovannroeun Samreth
6. E. Nillesen
7. J. Ree
8. L. Johansson

In Information Systems

1. Sam Jones
2. A. Philippopoulos
3. Sarantis Kalyvitis
4. George Economides
5. Sovannroeun Samreth
6. E. Nillesen
7. J. Ree
8. L. Johansson

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Sovannroeun Samreth
2. E. Nillesen
3. J. Ree
4. L. Johansson
5. J. Pettersson
6. F. Tarp
7. Sam Jones
8. K. Okada

Citations in the corpus

• Does foreign aid harm political institutions (2015, background): “However, Tavares (2003) reports that aid decreases corruption whilst Knack (2004) finds it has no impact on measures of democracy.”
• Can the West Save Africa (2008, neutral): “In contrast, a program to give textbooks to students in Kenya did not increase test scores on average (Paul Glewwe, Kremer, and Sylvie Moulin 2007), a result that contrasts sharply with the previous literature (see, e.g., Marlaine E. Lockheed and Eric A. Hanushek 1988; even education skeptics like P”
• The effect of foreign aid on corruption: A quantile regression approach (2012, background): “On the other hand, by pointing out that the evidence of Alesina and Weder (2002) is weak, Tavares (2003) empirically indicates that foreign aid reduces corruption.”
• Aiding Violence or Peace? The Impact of Foreign Aid on the Risk of Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (2009, methodology): “, Tavares (2003) and Rajan”
• Foreign aid and governance in Africa (2016, neutral): “Tavares (2003) has assessed the effect of foreign aid on corruption using cultural and geographical distance to conclude that foreign assistance reduces corruption.”
• Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability (2016, neutral): “For example, Leite and Weidmann (1999), Tavares (2003), Sala-i Martin and Subramanian (2003), Dalgaard and Olsson (2008), and Caselli and Michaels (2013) present corresponding empirical evidence on resource abundance and corruption.”
• Aid, Aid for Trade, and bilateral trade: An empirical study (2013, methodology): “Total N¼ 503,398. instruments used in the previous literature: (i) donor country characteristics, including a set of instruments first adopted by Tavares (2003), where the dependent variable is the level of corruption.16 The question is whether the set of instruments plausibly identifies any…”
• Does foreign aid distort incentives and hurt growth? Theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries (2008, background): “2002, Tavares, 2003 ), growth and aid (see, e.g., the references in footnote 1 above) and”
• Does Conditionality Work? A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme (2011, neutral): “Svensson (2000) presents similar results for ethnically diverse recipient countries in which social groups compete over common-pool resources, whereas Tavares (2003) finds aid to be associated with less corruption.”
• Chinese aid and local corruption (2018, neutral): “As described in Tavares (2003), where there are rents to be appropriated and where resources are transferred with substantial discretion and little accountability to the decision maker, there is a”