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When Does Transparency Improve Institutional Performance? Evidence from 20,000 Projects in 183 Countries by Honig, Dan, Lall, Ranjit, Parks, Bradley C.

“…Abstract Access to information (ATI) policies are often praised for strengthening transparency, accountability, and trust in public institutions, yet evidence…”
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African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance by Dreher, Axel, Fuchs, Andreas, Hodler, Roland, Parks, Bradley C., Raschky, Paul A., Tierney, Michael J.

“…We investigate whether foreign aid from China is prone to political capture in aid-receiving countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is…”
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Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects by Dreher, Axel, Fuchs, Andreas, Hodler, Roland, Parks, Bradley C., Raschky, Paul A., Tierney, Michael J.

“…Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to…”
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Climate Change, Social Theory and Justice by Parks, Bradley C., Roberts, J. Timmons

“…This article seeks to answer why North—South climate negotiations have gone on for decades without producing any substantial results. To address this question,…”
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A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets by Tittensor, Derek P., Walpole, Matt, Hill, Samantha L. L., Boyce, Daniel G., Britten, Gregory L., Burgess, Neil D., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Leadley, Paul W., Regan, Eugenie C., Alkemade, Rob, Baumung, Roswitha, Bellard, Céline, Bouwman, Lex, Bowles-Newark, Nadine J., Chenery, Anna M., Cheung, William W. L., Christensen, Villy, Cooper, H. David, Crowther, Annabel R., Dixon, Matthew J. R., Galli, Alessandro, Gaveau, Valérie, Gregory, Richard D., Gutierrez, Nicolas L., Hirsch, Tim L., Höft, Robert, Januchowski-Hartley, Stephanie R., Karmann, Marion, Krug, Cornelia B., Leverington, Fiona J., Loh, Jonathan, Lojenga, Rik Kutsch, Malsch, Kelly, Marques, Alexandra, Morgan, David H.W., Mumby, Peter J., Newbold, Tim, Noonan-Mooney, Kieran, Pagad, Shyama N., Parks, Bradley C., Pereira, Henrique M., Robertson, Tim, Rondinini, Carlo, Santini, Luca, Scharlemann, Jörn P. W., Schindler, Stefan, Sumaila, U. Rashid, Teh, Louise S.L., van Kolck, Jennifer, Visconti, Piero, Ye, Yimin

“…In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related “Aichi Targets” to be…”
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Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Ecological Debt, and Climate Justice: The History and Implications of Three Related Ideas for a New Social Movement by Roberts, J. Timmons, Parks, Bradley C.

“…Building on structuralist perspectives of the world economy, a small but growing group of researchers have forged a new literature on `ecologically unequal…”
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When do performance assessments influence policy behavior? Micro-evidence from the 2014 Reform Efforts Survey by Masaki, Takaaki, Parks, Bradley C.

“…Sovereign governments, multilateral institutions, and non-governmental organizations have created a wide array of tools to assess the policy performance of…”
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When do governments trade domestic reforms for external rewards? Explaining policy responses to the Millennium Challenge Corporation's eligibility standards by Parks, Bradley C., Davis, Caroline

“…Journalistic reports and case study evidence suggest that governments have made policy and institutional reforms to achieve or maintain eligibility for…”
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More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData by Tierney, Michael J., Nielson, Daniel L., Hawkins, Darren G., Roberts, J. Timmons, Findley, Michael G., Powers, Ryan M., Parks, Bradley, Wilson, Sven E., Hicks, Robert L.

“…In this introductory essay to the special issue, we introduce a new dataset of foreign assistance, AidData, that covers more bilateral and multilateral donors…”
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Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence: New Evidence from a Survey of Public Sector Officials in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries by Masaki, Takaaki, Parks, Bradley C., Faust, Jörg, Leiderer, Stefan, DiLorenzo, Matthew D.

“…Bilateral and multilateral development agencies spend a great deal of time, money, and effort trying to shape the reform priorities and processes of their…”
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Superparamagnetic perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions for true random number generators by Parks, Bradley, Bapna, Mukund, Igbokwe, Julianne, Almasi, Hamid, Wang, Weigang, Majetich, Sara A.

“…Superparamagnetic perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions are fabricated and analyzed for use in random number generators. Time-resolved resistance…”
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Author Correction: AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset by Goodman, Seth, Zhang, Sheng, Malik, Ammar A., Parks, Bradley C., Hall, Jacob

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AidData’s Geospatial Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset by Goodman, Seth, Zhang, Sheng, Malik, Ammar A., Parks, Bradley C., Hall, Jacob

“…AidData’s Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset (Version 3.0) provides detailed information about more than 20,000 development projects across 165 low-…”
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In-And-Outers and Moonlighters: An Evaluation of the Impact of Policy-making Exposure on IR Scholarship by Parks, Bradley C., Stern, Alena

“…Some international relations (IR) scholars lament the divide that exists between the academic community and the policy community. Others celebrate it. In this…”
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Building a Stronger System for Tracking Nutrition-Sensitive Spending: A Methodology and Estimate of Global Spending for Nutrition-Sensitive Foreign Aid by Ickes, Scott B., Trichler, Rachel B., Parks, Bradley C.

“…Background: There is growing awareness that the necessary solutions for improving nutrition outcomes are multisectorial. As such, investments are increasingly…”
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Globalization, vulnerability to climate change, perceived injustice by Parks, B.C, Roberts, J.T

“…As the earth's climate begins to shift into a hotter and less predictable period, there is a basic injustice in who will suffer worst and first. Nations facing…”
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The Local Impacts of World Bank Development Projects Near Sites of Conservation Significance by Buchanan, Graeme M., Parks, Bradley C., Donald, Paul F., O'Donnell, Brian F., Runfola, Daniel, Swaddle, John P., Tracewski, Łukasz, Butchart, Stuart H. M.

“…We evaluated the local impacts of World Bank development projects on sites of recognized conservation significance (Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas…”
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Inequality and the global climate regime: breaking the north-south impasse by Parks, Bradley C, Roberts, J Timmons

“…This article explores the hypothesis that global inequality may be a central impediment to interstate cooperation on climate change policy. Conventional wisdom…”
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Fueling Injustice: Globalization, Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Climate Change by Timmons Roberts, J., Parks, Bradley C.

“…The globalization of economic production fundamentally reshapes how a 'fair' solution to the climate change problem must be forged. Emissions are increasing…”
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Has Foreign Aid Been Greened? by Roberts, J. Timmons, Parks, Bradley C., Tierney, Michael J., Hicks, Robert L.

“…The cost of implementing Agenda 21 was estimated at $561.5 billion a year, with developed countries bankrolling $141.9 billion (20 percent of the total cost)…”
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