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Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012

are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The panel quantile regression …

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Fighting consumer price inflation in Africa. What do dynamics in money, credit, efficiency and size tell us?

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of policy options in financial dynamics (of money, credit, efficiency and size) on consumer prices. Soaring food prices have marked the geopolitical landscape of African countries in the past decade. Design/methodology/approach –...

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Reversed Economics and Inhumanity of Development Assistance in Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012

sustainable cure to poverty in Africa. Social implications – It is a momentous epoque to solve the second tragedy of foreign aid …

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On foreign aid distortions to governance

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

countries are relevant for Africa. Second, when the concept of governance is not restricted to corruption, the findings become …

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A Development Consensus reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus: Views and Agenda

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal Institutional Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...

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The Evolving Debate on the Effect of Foreign Aid on Corruption and Institutions in Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It entails a series of publications that have been successively motivated by feedbacks from academic and policy making circles. The plethora of papers explores debates sustaining the...

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International aid, corruption and fiscal policy behavior

Asongu, Asongu Simplice; Jellal, Jellal Mohamed - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption’ has had an important influence in policy and academic circles. This paper provides a unifying framework by using investment and fiscal behavior transmission channels in 53...

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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013

, regulation quality, government effectiveness, democracy, corruption, voice & accountability, control of corruption and political …

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Foreign Aid and Governance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

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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Foreign aid, investment and fiscal policy behavior: theory and empirical evidence

Asongu, Simplice; Jellal, Mohamed - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 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...

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