institutional quality such that, the institutional downside of development assistance maybe questionable when greater domestic … institutional development has taken place. Based on the hypothesis of institutional thresholds for foreign aid effectiveness, the … perilous character of development assistance to institutional quality is broadly confirmed in 53 African countries for the …

policy recommendation, the role of sound political institutions is crucial for financial development in Africa. Democracies … stock market development in the African continent. Originality/value – To the best of our knowledge this is the first paper … plagued many African countries and continue to pose a significant threat to financial market development. …

This paper puts figures to the facts of Eubank (2012), a recently celebrated paper in the Journal of Development … dataset is disaggregated into fundamental characteristics of African development based on income-levels, legal origins … law countries of the continent, we cannot conclude on its validity for other fundamental characteristics of development …

development. We postulate that when moment conditions of stock market performance are accounted for, democracy improves financial …

institutional development. In late 19th-century China, elites were afraid of the introduction of Western science and engineering and …

updated data(1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption …

academic debates. This paper partially negates their criticism of the mainstream approach to the aid-development nexus. Using … updated data(1996-2010) from 52 African countries we provide robust evidence of a positive aid-corruption nexus. Development …

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 …

This paper integrates two main strands of the aid-development nexus in providing additional information as to why … institutional benchmarks (thresholds) matter for the effectiveness of aid in institutional development. Using seven government …-control and democracy), we provide a thorough assessment of the aid-development nexus when existing institutional development …