title: The Political Economy of Foreign Aid: Allocation, Timing, and Effectivenes creator: Eichenauer, Vera Z. subject: ddc-300 subject: 300 Social sciences subject: ddc-320 subject: 320 Political science subject: ddc-330 subject: 330 Economics description: This thesis consists of four essays on the political economy of foreign aid. These essays cover issues related to the allocation, the timing, and the economic consequences of foreign aid for recipient countries. Chapters 1 and 3 consider the allocation of official development assistance across different aid channels (bilateral, multi-bi/trust funds, or multilateral). Chapter 2 studies the sub-annual timing of aid contributions to World Bank funds. Chapter 4 examines the growth consequences of short-term politically motivated foreign aid. date: 2018 type: Dissertation type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/24137/1/Eichenauer_VeraZ_Dissertation_Political%20Economy%20of%20Foreign%20Aid.pdf identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00024137 identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-241373 identifier: Eichenauer, Vera Z. (2018) The Political Economy of Foreign Aid: Allocation, Timing, and Effectivenes. [Dissertation] relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/24137/ rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess rights: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/help/license_urhg.html language: eng