Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 324564 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati |
| NOMBRES | Krishna Chaitanya |
| APELLIDO | Vadlamannati |
| FIRMA | VADLAMANNATI K C |
| AFILIACIONES | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5999-1126 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 164 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The political business cycle of petroleum taxes
Aid to Fight Aids
Using an excludable instrument for HIV‐specific aid, we investigate its effectiveness on HIV outcomes viz., prevalence and death rates. We theorize that HIV‐specific aid fills the funding gap that prevents governments from committing adequate resources to effectively address the epidemic. Using an instrumental variable estimator with panel data covering 139 developing countries and a sub‐sample of 50 Sub‐Saharan African countries during the 2002–…
Group Grievances, Opportunity, and the Onset of Civil War
Recent scholarship claims that group grievances due to political exclusion and discrimination drive civil wars. The grievance perspective suggests that socio-psychological factors allow groups to overcome collective action problems. We argue that the grievance perspective (over)focuses on the ends and not means , which are critical to explain how groups survive state sanction, allowing contention to escalate to civil war. We suggest that inclusiv…
Global oil prices and fuel subsidies
Does Norwegian Aid Reward Equitable Access to Health in Recipient States? Assessing a ‘Moral Superpower’s’ Aid to Pro-Poor Development, 1990–2019
We assess if Norwegian aid policies, widely heralded for being morally driven, rewards pro-poor governance. If higher levels of equitable access to health attracts higher levels of Norwegian aid, one might argue that Norwegian aid prioritizes the poor, which is both morally good and instrumentally valuable. We find that total Norwegian aid and aid for health and social development are economically less valuable to recipients with greater equity o…
Calling the Shots through Health Diplomacy
The donation and sale of vaccines are diplomatic tools that have impact well beyond health policies. May Chinese Covid-related vaccine diplomacy be understood beyond reactive terms vis-à-vis power disputes with the West, in particularly the United States? We then scrutinize the drivers of China’s vaccine diplomacy, assessing whether Beijing privileged the expansion of its diplomatic leverage in the Global South. By employing logit and tobit model…
A friend indeed to friends in need? China's trade regime and Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy
Employing newly available data on Chinese Covid-19 vaccine deliveries for a cross-section of 157 countries, we examine if China's vaccine diplomacy is driven by altruistic, enlightened self-interested motives or by purely strategic motives. According to the enlightened self-interested logic, China's vaccine supply would coincide with helping countries dependent on China for trade, i.e. its trading friends, while the strategic logic would entail p…
Why do some natural resource-rich countries adopt prudent fiscal rules? An empirical analysis
Dispositional Balancing and Hegemonic Order
How does the USA react to Chinese initiatives that gather allies from among the states that have been instrumental in sustaining the American-led liberal international order? We contend that Washington deploys dispositional balancing against Beijing, supporting this argument through a close scrutiny of US support for the projects of international developmental organisations (IDOs), such as multilateral development banks (MDBs), that target borrow…
Building Bridges or Breaking Bonds? The Belt and Road Initiative and Foreign Aid Competition
China’s renewed prominence is the most important development in international relations in the 21st century. Despite longstanding rhetoric of its own “peaceful rise”, China is increasingly viewed as a long-term strategic competitor, especially in the United States. Foreign aid is one arena where this competition may be playing out. While Western foreign aid principles have emphasized coordination and harmonization, the rise of China as a developm…
Blessing or curse? Assessing the local impacts of foreign direct investment on conflict in Africa
The question of foreign direct investment (FDI) and socio-political development is debated heavily. Liberals believe that FDI brings economic opportunities and/or increased incentives for peace and security among host societies. Critics suggest that FDI is exploitative, leading to conditions that increase the risk of violence. We take a political economy perspective that views FDI as problematic depending on how FDI affects politically powerful l…
Free market capitalism and societal inequities
Some blame free-market capitalism for increasing income inequality, arguing that richer classes could block access to others for maintaining their privileges. By manipulating the degree of political rights and resources available to others, the rich could reduce opportunities for others. Others argue that growth-promoting free markets raise all incomes, increasing aggregate welfare. We argue that governments more dependent on free markets are lik…
Can bigger health budgets cushion pandemics? An empirical test of Covid-19 deaths across the world
How has public healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments for providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending for reducing COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of healthcare equity and lower political corruption because the health sector is particularly susceptible to political spending. Our results, obtained using ordinary…
Which Wheel Gets the Grease? Constituent Agency and Sub-national World Bank Aid Allocation
Questions of aid allocation have long focused on discerning the motivation of development donors. Less attention has been paid to the interests and agency of recipient state governments and even less to the interests and agency of constituencies within those states. An implicit assumption is often that the ‘poor’ either passively receive the patronage of their benefactors or they don’t. In this paper, we instead suggest that depending on the moti…
Aid curse with Chinese characteristics? Chinese development flows and economic reforms
Does free-market capitalism drive unequal access to health? An empirical analysis, 1970–2015
Many scholars, particularly in public health, argue that neoliberal capitalist economic forces adversely affect communities by increasing inequalities, ultimately affecting health. Apparently, corporate capitalism affects health and communitarian concerns because governments place corporate profits over the publićs interests. Using unique data collected by the Varieties of Democracy (VDEM) project that capture the degree of access of the poorest …
The significance of age structure, education, and youth unemployment for explaining subnational variation in violent youth crime in Mexico
Violent crime in Mexico occurs at a rate that dwarfs the human costs of most contemporary civil wars, and the drug cartels responsible for the violence exercise de facto control over significant geographical territories. In this respect, the Mexican “drug wars” resemble conflicts over the control of rich natural resources in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, blurring the distinction between “political” and “social” or “criminal” violence. In the …
Welfare Chauvinism? Refugee Flows and Electoral Support for Populist‐Right Parties in Industrial Democracies
Objectives The objective of this article is to examine whether refugee flows are associated with an increase in electoral support for populist‐right parties. The empirical evidence on this so far remains mixed. This article argues that refugee inflows alone are an inaccurate predictor of the success of populist‐right parties. Rather, refugee inflows can lead to a rise in electoral support for populist‐right parties where traditional welfare state…
Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girl Trafficking in India
Illegal trafficking of girls results from their disadvantageous position in society, often reflected by preference for sons and neglect of daughters. India has both higher levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. This paper examines if the skewed sex ratio in India is associated with trafficking of girls. Using panel data from twenty-nine Indian states from 1980 to 2011, the study finds that a 100-uni…
Transparency Pays? Evaluating the Effects of the Freedom of Information Laws on Perceived Government Corruption
About 90 countries have adopted Freedom of Information (FOI) laws with the objective of facilitating citizens’ right to access information on government activities expeditiously. It is argued that FOI laws increase transparency and fix accountability of the government. We provide quantitative evidence on the impact of FOI laws on perceived government corruption. Using panel data for 132 countries over the 1990–2011 period, we find that adopting F…
Does democracy guarantee (de)forestation? An empirical analysis
It is a commonly held view that democracy is better at safeguarding environment while autocracy is predatory in nature, and is thus insensitive towards environment. However, others argue that democracy leads to environmental degradation. We revisit this contentious relationship between regime type and environment degradation in the context of deforestation. Using panel data on 139 countries during the 1990–2012 period, we find that democracy is a…
Human Rights Shaming and FDI
Does social diversity impede sound economic management? An empirical analysis, 1980-2012
Do Resource-Wealthy Rulers Adopt Transparency-Promoting Laws
Some argue that the right kinds of institutions mitigate, or even prevent, the development of “natural resource curses.” Rulers with access to resource wealth, however, are unlikely to adopt such institutions, because doing so would undermine their discretionary power. We examine this proposition by testing whether countries with access to natural resource wealth prove less likely to adopt transparency-promoting Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.…
Rewards of (Dis)Integration
A much-debated issue regarding globalization is whether it translates into Free Association and Collective Bargaining (FACB) rights for workers. The author uses Dreher's (2006) globalization index, which gauges globalization on economic, social, and political dimensions, and Mosley's (2011) FACB rights index, which measures 37 aspects of both practices and laws violations of FACB rights, to examine the impact of globalization on FACB rights of wo…
A race to the bottom in labor standards? An empirical investigation
Hearts and mines
India’s rapid economic growth over the last decade has been coupled with a Maoist insurgency that competes with the state for rural allegiance. In response to the threat, the Government of India has securitized development, using public works programmes in an attempt to sway locals away from Maoist allegiance. However, these areas are also home to massive iron and coal mines that drive India’s growth. This study aims to address the lack of local-…
Human Rights Shaming and FDI
Do Resource-Wealthy Rulers Adopt Transparency-Promoting Laws
Some argue that the right kinds of institutions mitigate, or even prevent, the development of “natural resource curses.” Rulers with access to resource wealth, however, are unlikely to adopt such institutions, because doing so would undermine their discretionary power. We examine this proposition by testing whether countries with access to natural resource wealth prove less likely to adopt transparency-promoting Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.…
The Needy Donor
Free market capitalism and societal inequities
Some blame free-market capitalism for increasing income inequality, arguing that richer classes could block access to others for maintaining their privileges. By manipulating the degree of political rights and resources available to others, the rich could reduce opportunities for others. Others argue that growth-promoting free markets raise all incomes, increasing aggregate welfare. We argue that governments more dependent on free markets are lik…
Why Indian men rebel? Explaining armed rebellion in the northeastern states of India, 1970-2007
Armed conflicts have been a permanent feature of the northeastern region since Indian independence. Surprisingly, relentless conflicts in this remote region of India have received little attention in the literature. Although some studies on conflicts in India have made important contributions to understanding and analyzing the causes of conflicts in general, none of them has paid specific attention to the ongoing conflicts in the northeastern reg…
Aid curse with Chinese characteristics? Chinese development flows and economic reforms
The significance of age structure, education, and youth unemployment for explaining subnational variation in violent youth crime in Mexico
Violent crime in Mexico occurs at a rate that dwarfs the human costs of most contemporary civil wars, and the drug cartels responsible for the violence exercise de facto control over significant geographical territories. In this respect, the Mexican “drug wars” resemble conflicts over the control of rich natural resources in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, blurring the distinction between “political” and “social” or “criminal” violence. In the …
Impact of Political Risk on FDI Revisited—An Aggregate Firm-Level Analysis
Unlike previous studies on political risk and foreign direct investment (FDI) that used macro-level FDI data to test micro-level theories, I make use of aggregate data on U.S. firms' investment activities in 101 developing countries during the period 1997–2007 to reassess the propositions. Using a multilevel mixed-effects linear instrumental variable approach, I find that lower political risk is associated with (a) an increase in U.S. firms with …
Exploring the relationship between military spending and human rights performance in South Asia
The relationship between military spending and human rights is one of the most prominent issues in political economy. Yet, the linkage between the two is empirically under-developed. We examine the effects of militarisation on human rights performance in six South Asian economies for the period 1980–2006. Our findings demonstrate that an increase in military spending significantly reduces human rights. Acceleration of military spending is also as…
Building Bridges or Breaking Bonds? The Belt and Road Initiative and Foreign Aid Competition
China’s renewed prominence is the most important development in international relations in the 21st century. Despite longstanding rhetoric of its own “peaceful rise”, China is increasingly viewed as a long-term strategic competitor, especially in the United States. Foreign aid is one arena where this competition may be playing out. While Western foreign aid principles have emphasized coordination and harmonization, the rise of China as a developm…
Dispositional Balancing and Hegemonic Order
How does the USA react to Chinese initiatives that gather allies from among the states that have been instrumental in sustaining the American-led liberal international order? We contend that Washington deploys dispositional balancing against Beijing, supporting this argument through a close scrutiny of US support for the projects of international developmental organisations (IDOs), such as multilateral development banks (MDBs), that target borrow…
Welfare Chauvinism? Refugee Flows and Electoral Support for Populist‐Right Parties in Industrial Democracies
Objectives The objective of this article is to examine whether refugee flows are associated with an increase in electoral support for populist‐right parties. The empirical evidence on this so far remains mixed. This article argues that refugee inflows alone are an inaccurate predictor of the success of populist‐right parties. Rather, refugee inflows can lead to a rise in electoral support for populist‐right parties where traditional welfare state…
Does democracy guarantee (de)forestation? An empirical analysis
It is a commonly held view that democracy is better at safeguarding environment while autocracy is predatory in nature, and is thus insensitive towards environment. However, others argue that democracy leads to environmental degradation. We revisit this contentious relationship between regime type and environment degradation in the context of deforestation. Using panel data on 139 countries during the 1990–2012 period, we find that democracy is a…
Does social diversity impede sound economic management? An empirical analysis, 1980-2012
Rewards of (Dis)Integration
A much-debated issue regarding globalization is whether it translates into Free Association and Collective Bargaining (FACB) rights for workers. The author uses Dreher's (2006) globalization index, which gauges globalization on economic, social, and political dimensions, and Mosley's (2011) FACB rights index, which measures 37 aspects of both practices and laws violations of FACB rights, to examine the impact of globalization on FACB rights of wo…
Determinants of foreign direct investment and volatility in South East Asian economies
The objective of this paper is to identify and examine the determinants of barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI) in South East Asian economies. Based on our theoretical groundings, we identify potential barriers under four categories, namely macroeconomic policy factors, political factors, institutional factors and socioeconomic factors. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 17 South East Asian economies from 1996 to 2005, we test thes…
The Role of Country-of-Origin Characteristics for Foreign Direct Investment and Technical Cooperation in Post-Reform India
Why do some natural resource-rich countries adopt prudent fiscal rules? An empirical analysis
Blessing or curse? Assessing the local impacts of foreign direct investment on conflict in Africa
The question of foreign direct investment (FDI) and socio-political development is debated heavily. Liberals believe that FDI brings economic opportunities and/or increased incentives for peace and security among host societies. Critics suggest that FDI is exploitative, leading to conditions that increase the risk of violence. We take a political economy perspective that views FDI as problematic depending on how FDI affects politically powerful l…
Can bigger health budgets cushion pandemics? An empirical test of Covid-19 deaths across the world
How has public healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments for providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending for reducing COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of healthcare equity and lower political corruption because the health sector is particularly susceptible to political spending. Our results, obtained using ordinary…
Do IMF programs disrupt ethnic peace? An empirical analysis, 1985–2006
Structural adjustment programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are often blamed for disrupting social relations by forcing austerity on vulnerable people and introducing unpopular liberalization policies. Some suggest that such interventions harm ethnic relations in developing countries because they are insensitive to the tenuous social bargains that often preserve ethnic peace. Moreover, during crises, dominant groups may seek to displa…
Does higher economic and financial development lead to environmental degradation
Determinants of foreign direct investment and volatility in South East Asian economies
The objective of this paper is to identify and examine the determinants of barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI) in South East Asian economies. Based on our theoretical groundings, we identify potential barriers under four categories, namely macroeconomic policy factors, political factors, institutional factors and socioeconomic factors. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 17 South East Asian economies from 1996 to 2005, we test thes…
Exploring the relationship between military spending and human rights performance in South Asia
The relationship between military spending and human rights is one of the most prominent issues in political economy. Yet, the linkage between the two is empirically under-developed. We examine the effects of militarisation on human rights performance in six South Asian economies for the period 1980–2006. Our findings demonstrate that an increase in military spending significantly reduces human rights. Acceleration of military spending is also as…
Why Indian men rebel? Explaining armed rebellion in the northeastern states of India, 1970-2007
Armed conflicts have been a permanent feature of the northeastern region since Indian independence. Surprisingly, relentless conflicts in this remote region of India have received little attention in the literature. Although some studies on conflicts in India have made important contributions to understanding and analyzing the causes of conflicts in general, none of them has paid specific attention to the ongoing conflicts in the northeastern reg…
Hearts and mines
India’s rapid economic growth over the last decade has been coupled with a Maoist insurgency that competes with the state for rural allegiance. In response to the threat, the Government of India has securitized development, using public works programmes in an attempt to sway locals away from Maoist allegiance. However, these areas are also home to massive iron and coal mines that drive India’s growth. This study aims to address the lack of local-…
The Role of Country-of-Origin Characteristics for Foreign Direct Investment and Technical Cooperation in Post-Reform India
Impact of Political Risk on FDI Revisited—An Aggregate Firm-Level Analysis
Unlike previous studies on political risk and foreign direct investment (FDI) that used macro-level FDI data to test micro-level theories, I make use of aggregate data on U.S. firms' investment activities in 101 developing countries during the period 1997–2007 to reassess the propositions. Using a multilevel mixed-effects linear instrumental variable approach, I find that lower political risk is associated with (a) an increase in U.S. firms with …
The Needy Donor
A race to the bottom in labor standards? An empirical investigation
Do IMF programs disrupt ethnic peace? An empirical analysis, 1985–2006
Structural adjustment programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are often blamed for disrupting social relations by forcing austerity on vulnerable people and introducing unpopular liberalization policies. Some suggest that such interventions harm ethnic relations in developing countries because they are insensitive to the tenuous social bargains that often preserve ethnic peace. Moreover, during crises, dominant groups may seek to displa…
Rewards of (Dis)Integration
A much-debated issue regarding globalization is whether it translates into Free Association and Collective Bargaining (FACB) rights for workers. The author uses Dreher's (2006) globalization index, which gauges globalization on economic, social, and political dimensions, and Mosley's (2011) FACB rights index, which measures 37 aspects of both practices and laws violations of FACB rights, to examine the impact of globalization on FACB rights of wo…
Do Resource-Wealthy Rulers Adopt Transparency-Promoting Laws
Some argue that the right kinds of institutions mitigate, or even prevent, the development of “natural resource curses.” Rulers with access to resource wealth, however, are unlikely to adopt such institutions, because doing so would undermine their discretionary power. We examine this proposition by testing whether countries with access to natural resource wealth prove less likely to adopt transparency-promoting Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.…
Transparency Pays? Evaluating the Effects of the Freedom of Information Laws on Perceived Government Corruption
About 90 countries have adopted Freedom of Information (FOI) laws with the objective of facilitating citizens’ right to access information on government activities expeditiously. It is argued that FOI laws increase transparency and fix accountability of the government. We provide quantitative evidence on the impact of FOI laws on perceived government corruption. Using panel data for 132 countries over the 1990–2011 period, we find that adopting F…
Does democracy guarantee (de)forestation? An empirical analysis
It is a commonly held view that democracy is better at safeguarding environment while autocracy is predatory in nature, and is thus insensitive towards environment. However, others argue that democracy leads to environmental degradation. We revisit this contentious relationship between regime type and environment degradation in the context of deforestation. Using panel data on 139 countries during the 1990–2012 period, we find that democracy is a…
Human Rights Shaming and FDI
Does social diversity impede sound economic management? An empirical analysis, 1980-2012
Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girl Trafficking in India
Illegal trafficking of girls results from their disadvantageous position in society, often reflected by preference for sons and neglect of daughters. India has both higher levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. This paper examines if the skewed sex ratio in India is associated with trafficking of girls. Using panel data from twenty-nine Indian states from 1980 to 2011, the study finds that a 100-uni…
Does free-market capitalism drive unequal access to health? An empirical analysis, 1970–2015
Many scholars, particularly in public health, argue that neoliberal capitalist economic forces adversely affect communities by increasing inequalities, ultimately affecting health. Apparently, corporate capitalism affects health and communitarian concerns because governments place corporate profits over the publićs interests. Using unique data collected by the Varieties of Democracy (VDEM) project that capture the degree of access of the poorest …
The significance of age structure, education, and youth unemployment for explaining subnational variation in violent youth crime in Mexico
Violent crime in Mexico occurs at a rate that dwarfs the human costs of most contemporary civil wars, and the drug cartels responsible for the violence exercise de facto control over significant geographical territories. In this respect, the Mexican “drug wars” resemble conflicts over the control of rich natural resources in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, blurring the distinction between “political” and “social” or “criminal” violence. In the …
Welfare Chauvinism? Refugee Flows and Electoral Support for Populist‐Right Parties in Industrial Democracies
Objectives The objective of this article is to examine whether refugee flows are associated with an increase in electoral support for populist‐right parties. The empirical evidence on this so far remains mixed. This article argues that refugee inflows alone are an inaccurate predictor of the success of populist‐right parties. Rather, refugee inflows can lead to a rise in electoral support for populist‐right parties where traditional welfare state…
Which Wheel Gets the Grease? Constituent Agency and Sub-national World Bank Aid Allocation
Questions of aid allocation have long focused on discerning the motivation of development donors. Less attention has been paid to the interests and agency of recipient state governments and even less to the interests and agency of constituencies within those states. An implicit assumption is often that the ‘poor’ either passively receive the patronage of their benefactors or they don’t. In this paper, we instead suggest that depending on the moti…
Aid curse with Chinese characteristics? Chinese development flows and economic reforms
Why do some natural resource-rich countries adopt prudent fiscal rules? An empirical analysis
Dispositional Balancing and Hegemonic Order
How does the USA react to Chinese initiatives that gather allies from among the states that have been instrumental in sustaining the American-led liberal international order? We contend that Washington deploys dispositional balancing against Beijing, supporting this argument through a close scrutiny of US support for the projects of international developmental organisations (IDOs), such as multilateral development banks (MDBs), that target borrow…
Building Bridges or Breaking Bonds? The Belt and Road Initiative and Foreign Aid Competition
China’s renewed prominence is the most important development in international relations in the 21st century. Despite longstanding rhetoric of its own “peaceful rise”, China is increasingly viewed as a long-term strategic competitor, especially in the United States. Foreign aid is one arena where this competition may be playing out. While Western foreign aid principles have emphasized coordination and harmonization, the rise of China as a developm…
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