The Perils of Unearned Foreign Income: Aid, Remittances, and Government Survival

By Faisal Z. Ahmed. American Political Science Review, 2012

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Subfields: Development, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Aid Is Not Oil: Donor Utility, Heterogeneous Aid, and the Aid-Democratization Relationship (2015, background): “Ahmed 2012. heterogeneous basket of aid that can vary across time and recipients.”
• Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts (2020, unknown): “This is consistent with the notion that “unearned income”, government resources not deriving from domestic taxation, is easier to appropriate for self-interested political elites (Ahmed, 2012).”