TY - BOOK ID - 133463295 TI - Has Chinese Aid Benefited Recipient Countries? Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis AU - Mandon, Pierre. AU - Tesfaye Woldemichael, Martha. PY - 2022 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Economics: General KW - Exports and Imports KW - Infrastructure KW - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Other KW - Foreign Aid KW - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth KW - Investment KW - Capital KW - Intangible Capital KW - Capacity KW - Economic & financial crises & disasters KW - Economics of specific sectors KW - International economics KW - Foreign aid KW - Development assistance KW - National accounts KW - Currency crises KW - Informal sector KW - Economics KW - International relief KW - Saving and investment KW - China, People's Republic of UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133463295 AB - This paper employs a meta-regression analysis of 473 estimates from 15 studies to take stock of the empirical literature on Chinese aid effectiveness. After accommodating publication selection bias, we find that, on average, Beijing’s foreign assistance has had a positive impact on economic and social outcomes in recipient countries but an opposite effect on governance, albeit negligible in size. We also show that (i) studies that fail to uncover statistically significant effects are less likely to be submitted to journals, or accepted for publication; and (ii) results are not driven by authors’ institutional affiliation. Differences in study characteristics such as the type of development outcome considered, how the Chinese aid variable is measured, the geographic region under study, and publication outlet explain the heterogeneity among Chinese aid effectiveness estimates reported in the literature. ER -