Aiding and Abetting: Project Aid and Ethnic Politics in Kenya

By Ryan C. Briggs. 2014

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Subfields: Development, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Development aid and infant mortality. Micro-level evidence from Nigeria (2018, background): “Using the geographically disaggregated AidData containing information on the exact location of aid projects, scholars have found a positive effect of aid on development (Dreher & Lohmann, 2015), as well as a conflict-reducing effect of aid (van Weezel, 2015), while Briggs (2017) finds that aid is no”
Segregation, Ethnic Favoritism, and the Strategic Targeting of Local Public Goods (2018, background): “A number of empirical studies show that coethnics of African political leaders have better health and educational outcomes (Franck & Rainer, 2012), superior infrastructure (Burgess, Jedwab, Miguel, Morjaria, & Padro i Miquel, 2015), and preferential access to foreign aid (Briggs, 2014; Jablonski, 20”
Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa (2018, background): “Considering China’s increased presence in Africa and the mounting 4 See e.g. Findley et al. (2011) on aid and conflict; Francken et al. (2012) on relief aid allocation in Madagascar; Nunnenkamp et al. (2012) on the distribution of World Bank aid in India; Powell and Findley (2012) on donor coordinat”
Chinese aid and local corruption (2018, unknown): “2013 on aid allocation in Malawi, and Briggs, 2014 and Jablonski, 2014, both on political capture of aid in Kenya). Kelly et al. (2016) investigate the cross-sectional relationship between aid and perceptions of corruption in 44 villages in Tanzania, finding that Chinese aid projects are correlated ”
Does Foreign Aid Target the Poorest? (2016, unknown): “Briggs 2012.”
Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, and Domestic Government Legitimacy: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh (2018, background): “Recent work on the withincountry allocation of foreign aid has shown that nationallevel officials direct foreign aid to regions populated by political allies (Briggs 2012, 2014; Jablonski 2014).”