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' in its current state has the shortcoming of modeling corruption as a direct effect of development assistance. This note …’s consumption expenditure increases corruption. (2) Development assistance channeled via private investment and tax effort decreases …
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institutional quality such that, the institutional downside of development assistance maybe questionable when greater domestic … institutional development has taken place. Based on the hypothesis of institutional thresholds for foreign aid effectiveness, the … perilous character of development assistance to institutional quality is broadly confirmed in 53 African countries for the …
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This paper assesses the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new … indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). The effects of Total Net Official Development Assistance (NODA), NODA … from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and NODA from Multilateral donors on economic prosperity (at national and …
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data … (1996-2010) and a new indicator of human development(adjusted for inequality). Design/methodology/approach - The estimation … that development assistance is detrimental to GDP growth, GDP per capita growth and inequality adjusted human development …
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academic debates. This paper partially negates their criticism of the mainstream approach to the aid-development nexus. Using … updated data(1996-2010) from 52 African countries we provide robust evidence of a positive aid-corruption nexus. Development … & Samreth(2012, EL) finding for developing countries may not be relevant for Africa. …
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This paper integrates two main strands of the aid-development nexus in assessing whether institutional thresholds … matter in the effectiveness of foreign aid on institutional development in 53 African countries over the period 1996 … Africa. (2) But for a thin exception (democracy), foreign-aid is more negatively correlated with countries of higher …
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development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions … are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The panel quantile regression … technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and development assistance differs …
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updated data (1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption …
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that development assistance deteriorates economic (regulation quality and government effectiveness) and institutional … influence the election and replacement of political leaders in Africa may have insignificant results. It is time to solve the … paper extends the debate on foreign aid and institutions in Africa in the light a plethora of recent studies in the aid …
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The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...
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