Can aid buy foreign public support?: Evidence from Chinese development finance

Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over the...

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Main Authors:	Wellner, Lukas (Author) , Dreher, Axel (Author) , Fuchs, Andreas (Author) , Parks, Bradley (Author) , Strange, Austin M. (Author)
Format:	Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	Munich, Germany CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute March 2022
Series:	CESifo working paper no. 9646 (2022)
In:	CESifo working papers (no. 9646 (2022))
Subjects:	Graue Literatur
Online Access:	Verlag, kostenfrei: https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp9646.pdf Verlag, kostenfrei: https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2022/working-paper/can-aid-buy-foreign-public-support-evidence-chinese-development Resolving-System, kostenfrei: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/260776
Author Notes:	Lukas Wellner, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley C. Parks, Austin Strange