The politics of foreign aid: A median voter perspective

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 165-178

  Mayer, Wolfgang ^a   Raimondos Møller, Pascalis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; INTERNATIONAL AID; TERMS OF TRADE; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0038404887     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9361.00183     Document Type: Article

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