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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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The course covers the following topics: - Bilateral aid giving - Multilateral aid giving - Emerging donors and lenders - Poverty targeting and political capture of aid within countries - Aid effectiveness - Side effects of aid - Aid and migration Trade policies - Debt relief - Humanitarian assistance
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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This course offers insights into the politico-economic analysis of international development policies. Students will obtain an overview on the state of the art of empirical research on development aid and other international development policies. The course discusses the determinants of aid allocation, up-to-date methods for evaluating aid effectiveness at the macro and micro level, the role of conditionality, and potential reasons for the ineffectiveness of aid projects. It also covers nonstate development actors, international development organizations, and so-called new donors such as China and India. Students learn to analyze international development policies with politico-economic theories and empirical methods.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
written exam
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Recommended literature
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Briggs, Ryan C. (2017). Does Foreign Aid Target the Poorest?. International Organization 71(1): 187?206.
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Dreher, Axel and Steffen Lohmann. (2015). Aid and Growth at the Regional Level. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 31(3-4): 420-446.
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Watkins, M. (2022). Undermining Conditionality? The Effect of Chinese Development Assistance on Compliance with World Bank Project Agreements. Review of International Organizations 17(4): 667-690.
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