Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 
Author-Name: Broich, Tobias
Author-Email: broich@merit.unu.edu
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht University
Title: Do authoritarian regimes receive more Chinese development finance than
	 democratic ones? Empirical evidence for Africa. 
Abstract: This study is part of an emerging literature that aims to shed light
	 on China's development finance activities in Africa using quantitative
	 estimation techniques. This paper empirically investigates whether
	 African authoritarian regimes receive more Chinese development assistance
	 than democratic ones, both in absolute and relative terms. I use three
	 different measures of democracy/autocracy which allows me to check whether
	 my results depend on the specific indicator chosen. The OLS results
	 suggest that Chinese development finance does not systematically flow to
	 more authoritarian countries, controlling for strategic, economic, political,
	 institutional and geographic confounding factors. The results are not driven
	 by the specific democracy indicator used in the analysis. The findings remain
	 virtually unchanged if I reduce the sample to Sub-Saharan Africa only.
	 Furthermore, the results stand up to several robustness checks, including FE,
	 RE and instrumental variable estimation.
Keywords: Development Finance, Foreign Aid, China, Africa, Autocracy, Democracy
Classification-JEL: F35, H10, O11, O55
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20170215
Number: 2017-011
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2017/wp2017-011.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2017011