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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723
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IMF Lending and Banking Crises
Luca, Luca Papi Author-Name-First; Presbitero, Andrea F.; … - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera … - 2013
In this paper we look at the effect of International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending programs on banking crises in a large sample of developing countries, over the period 1965-2010. The endogeneity of the Fund intervention is addressed by adopting an instrumental variable (IV) strategy, in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791323
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On the dynamic effects of foreign aid on corruption
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional proximity, openness to sea, natural resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408498
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Foreign aid and governance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2014
Purpose - This paper investigates the effect of foreign aid on governance in order to extend the debates on foreign aid and to verify common positions from Moyo's 'Dead Aid', Collier's 'Bottom Billion' and Eubank's 'Somaliland'. The empirical evidence is based on updated data from 52 African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409152
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Foreign aid, investment and fiscal policy behavior : theory and empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jellal, Mohammed - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409169
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A brief clarification to the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The study clarifies the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development. It investigates the effect of a plethora of foreign aid dynamics on the inequality adjusted human development index. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM technique with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409176
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Foreign aid and corruption : clarifying murky empirical conclusions
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Beecroft, Ibukun; Asongu, … - 2014
This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing heterogeneity dimension of aid. The relationship was estimated using dynamic system GMM and quantile regressions (QR). Results show that both narratives in the debate are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409208
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Taxation, foreign aid and political governance : figures to the facts of a celebrated literature
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
This paper puts figures to the facts of Eubank (2012), a recently celebrated paper in the Journal of Development Studies. We investigate the underpinning Somaliland-based hypothesis that foreign aid dilutes the positive role of taxation on political governance. The assessment is based on 53...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409237
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The questionable economics of development assistance in Africa : hot-fresh evidence, 1996 - 2010
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409239
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On taxation, political accountability and foreign aid : empirics to a celebrated literature
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The Eubank (2012, JDS) findings on taxation, political accountability and foreign aid has had an important influence in academic and policy-making debates. Eubank has warned that his findings should not be generalized across Africa until they are backed by robust empirical evidence. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409242