This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in improving government institutions in 52 African countries using … updated data (1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption … momentous epoque to solve the second tragedy of foreign aid; high time economists and policy makers start rethinking the models …

development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions … are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The panel quantile regression … quantiles after controlling for the unobserved heterogeneity. (3) The aid-human development nexus is negative and almost similar …

This paper integrates two main strands of the aid-development nexus in assessing whether institutional thresholds … matter in the effectiveness of foreign aid on institutional development in 53 African countries over the period 1996 … Africa. (2) But for a thin exception (democracy), foreign-aid is more negatively correlated with countries of higher …

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data … sustainable cure to poverty in Africa. Social implications - It is a momentous epoque to solve the second tragedy of foreign aid …. Originality/value - These findings are based on data collected after pioneering works on the aid-development nexus. Usage of the …

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 …The Okada & Samreth(2012, EL) finding that aid deters corruption could have an important influence on policy and …

This paper assesses the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new … as a sustainable cure to poverty in Africa. Though the stated intents or purposes of aid are socio-economic, the actual … indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). The effects of Total Net Official Development Assistance (NODA), NODA …

The debate by Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) on 'the effect of foreign aid on corruption …' in its current state has the shortcoming of modeling corruption as a direct effect of development assistance. This note … extends the debate by assessing the channels of foreign aid to corruption in 53 African countries for the period 1996 …

institutional development has taken place. Based on the hypothesis of institutional thresholds for foreign aid effectiveness, the …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 …