Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? A disaggregated analysis

Public Choice

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 139-164

  Dreher, Axel ^a,b   Nunnenkamp, Peter ^c   Thiele, Rainer ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilateral aid; UN General Assembly; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 44749091362     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-008-9286-x     Document Type: Article

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