Friday 30 November 2018

Dirty work: Buying votes at the UN Security Council

a column by Axel Dreher, Valentin Lang, B. Peter Rosendorff and James Raymond Vreeland for VOX: CEPR&rsquo's Policy Portal

Countries that vote with the US when serving on the UN Security Council also receive more financial assistance.

This column uses voting records in the Council to show that when these countries were US allies, they received more in US aid, but when the countries were not natural allies, they received more financial assistance from US-dominated international institutions instead.

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