%0 Report %1 andersen2020elite %A Andersen, Jørgen Juel %A Johannesen, Niels %A Rijkers, Bob %B Policy Research Working Paper %D 2020 %K entwicklungshilfe steueroasen weltbank wirtschaft %T Elite Capture of Foreign Aid : Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts %U http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/493201582052636710/pdf/Elite-Capture-of-Foreign-Aid-Evidence-from-Offshore-Bank-Accounts.pdf %X Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are not confounded by contemporaneous shocks such as civil conflicts, natural disasters, and financial crises, and are robust to instrumenting with predetermined aid commitments. The implied leakage rate is around 7.5 percent at the sample mean and tends to increase with the ratio of aid to GDP. The findings are consistent with aid capture in the most aid-dependent countries.

@techreport{andersen2020elite, abstract = {Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are not confounded by contemporaneous shocks such as civil conflicts, natural disasters, and financial crises, and are robust to instrumenting with predetermined aid commitments. The implied leakage rate is around 7.5 percent at the sample mean and tends to increase with the ratio of aid to GDP. The findings are consistent with aid capture in the most aid-dependent countries.}, added-at = {2020-02-21T07:53:20.000+0100}, author = {Andersen, Jørgen Juel and Johannesen, Niels and Rijkers, Bob}, biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2f81513901aa6a9a68e6ef6d98944fde8/droessler}, day = 18, institution = {World Bank}, interhash = {8367062ea6cf4cf7d40420cd46b68e1b}, intrahash = {f81513901aa6a9a68e6ef6d98944fde8}, keywords = {entwicklungshilfe steueroasen weltbank wirtschaft}, month = {02}, series = {Policy Research Working Paper}, timestamp = {2020-02-21T06:56:05.000+0100}, title = {Elite Capture of Foreign Aid : Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts}, url = {http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/493201582052636710/pdf/Elite-Capture-of-Foreign-Aid-Evidence-from-Offshore-Bank-Accounts.pdf}, year = 2020 }