Development aid and international politics: Does membership on the UN Security Council influence World Bank decisions?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond
• 署名单位: Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Yale University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.02.003
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 1-18
• 关键词: World Bank; UN Security Council; voting; aid

摘要

We investigate whether elected members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the World Bank, using panel data for 157 countries over the period 1970-2004. Our results indicate a robust positive relationship between temporary UN Security Council membership and the number of World Bank projects a country receives, even after accounting for economic and political factors, as well as regional, country and year effects. The size of World Bank loans, however, is not affected by UN Security Council membership. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.