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 …

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 … impacts of aid dynamics with high degrees of substitution are positive. These include, aid for: social infrastructure …

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 …

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 … (2012) hypothesis that in the absence of foreign aid, the dependence of government on local tax revenues provides the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …