This paper assesses how legal origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law …. It employs all the dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The law … size. The results broadly support the benefits of law mechanisms in financial development. The findings only show partial …

This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It … institutions. Moreover, another debate on the incidence of foreign aid distortions on corruption is also assessed in light of a … recently celebrated literature on development assistance. Overall, the findings show that the effects of foreign aid on …

development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions … technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and development assistance differs … throughout the distributions of development dynamics. Findings – Three main findings are established. (1) With slight exceptions …

development has taken place in African countries. Design/methodology/approach – In framing the financial dimension in a more … the financial development benefits of financial globalization. The estimation approach consists of assessing the impact of … financial globalization through-out the conditional distributions of domestic financial development dynamics. Findings – The …

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 …

(2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye’s findings. Then extend the concept of governance from corruption to … countries are relevant for Africa. Second, when the concept of governance is not restricted to corruption, the findings become …

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 diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on …

The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption’ has … reducing (increasing) corruption (corruption-control) are discussed. …