Risk, Conflict and Challenges in the Context of Emerging Economies
Year: 2012

Motivated by the growing relevance of the so-called Emerging Economies, this doctoral thesis conducts an empirical analysis grounded in three sub-disciplines of empirical economic research. In three essays, this work links the topics of the empowerment of Emerging Economies' with the domains of the economics of foreign aid, economics of crime and international trade. Emerging economies are increasingly assuming the role of donors of foreign aid and are thus slowly catching up to established memb