are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The panel quantile regression … development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions …, the effectiveness of aid in economic prosperity (at the macro level) increases in positive magnitude across the …

sustainable cure to poverty in Africa. Social implications – It is a momentous epoque to solve the second tragedy of foreign aid …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data … of explaining variables(aid dynamic channels) conditional on other covariates(control variables). In the third-step, the …

The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could … Kangoye. It follows that in the presence of foreign aid uncertainty, governments could be constrained to improve governance … countries are relevant for Africa. Second, when the concept of governance is not restricted to corruption, the findings become …

This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It …. The plethora of papers explores debates sustaining the direct, conditional and indirect effects of foreign aid on … institutions. Moreover, another debate on the incidence of foreign aid distortions on corruption is also assessed in light of a …

The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption’ has … nexuses are provided. Policy implications on how to use foreign aid constraints in managing fiscal behavior as means of …

We extend the Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption’ by … stability). Core to this extension is a hypothetical contingency of the ‘institutional perils of foreign aid’ on existing … institutional development has taken place. Based on the hypothesis of institutional thresholds for foreign aid effectiveness, the …

paper extends the debate on foreign aid and institutions in Africa in the light a plethora of recent studies in the aid …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 …

The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating … on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the positive effect of aid mitigates the burden of the taxation …

as a sustainable cure to poverty in Africa. Though the stated intents or purposes of aid are socio-economic, the actual …This paper assesses the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new … countries. Given concerns on the achievement of the MDGs, the relevance of these results point to the deficiency of foreign aid …

Studies. We investigate the underpinning Somaliland-based hypothesis that foreign aid dilutes the positive role of taxation on …, natural resources and landlockeness. While the Eubank hypothesis is invalid in baseline Africa, low-income and English common …