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N2  - The dissertation contributes to the literature on the political economy of foreign aid and foreign direct investments to developing countries. Chapter I focus on the changing ideology of the German government over the 1973 ? 2010 period and analyses whether this affects the importance of the factors that determine German bilateral aid allocation. In Chapter II the focus changes from aid allocation in general to the specific design of conditionality that is attached to the World Bank?s development policy lending. The analysis focuses on a specific subset of conditions, i.e., trade
conditions, and how they relate to the commercial interests of the Bank?s five major shareholders. The analysis in Chapter III investigates the relationship between the ratification of international human rights conventions and foreign aid to explain why countries ratify these conventions. Finally, Chapter IV studies foreign direct investment flows to resource-rich developing countries after these countries join a transparency initiative for resource-rich countries to test whether this initiative has a positive signalling effect on foreign investors.

A1  - Schmaljohann, Maya
ID  - heidok16089
Y1  - 2014///
TI  - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL FLOWS TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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