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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality

Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

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 …

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Increased funding for AIDS-engaged (faith-based) civil society organizations in Africa?

Olivier, Jill; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper considers the evidence on the comparative extent to which faith-based civil society organizations (FB-CSOs) have benefited from increased funding related to the HIV/AIDS response in Africa. First, we review the literature on whether FB-CSOs have benefited from such funding, and find...

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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...

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Africa’s Burden: Labour Markets, Natural Resources and the FDI ‘Reliance-Rejection’ Paradox

de Mauro, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper will attempt to provide a comprehensive answer to the complex issue of development in sub-Saharan Africa by … source to finance the development of SSA, while ignoring the two main structural issues inherited from colonialism - the … locked the continent in an FDI paradox that prevents it from funding its own development. …

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Fighting consumer price inflation in Africa. What do dynamics in money, credit, efficiency and size tell us?

Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of policy options in financial dynamics (of money, credit, efficiency and size) on consumer prices. Soaring food prices have marked the geopolitical landscape of African countries in the past decade. Design/methodology/approach –...

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World Empire - or a world of Empires?

Freeman, Alan; Kagarlitsky, Boris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This article comprises our introduction to the book The Politics of Empire: Globalization in Crisis (Freeman and Kagarlitsky 2004) which we wrote jointly to introduce the articles in that volume, was the outcome of a seminar called in 2002 by the Transnational Institute to assess responses to...

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Taxation, foreign aid and political governance: figures to the facts of a celebrated literature

Asongu, Simplice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

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 …

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Economic Implications of Business Dynamics for KE-Associated Economic Growth and Inclusive Development in African Countries

Asongu, Simplice; Amavilah, Voxi; Andrés, Antonio R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to the ‘inclusive development’ of 53 African countries during the 1996 … doing business as expressed in the state of KE, and through it to the inclusive development via the economic growth of those … inclusive development. In fact, growth of this kind has stronger effects on inclusive development and by implication on poverty …

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Dry Times in Africa: Rainfall and Africa's Growth Performance

Barrios, Salvador; Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

While there have been some references in the literature to the potential role of the general decline in rainfall in sub-Saharan African nations on their poor growth performance relative to other developing countries, this avenue remains empirically unexplored. In this paper we use a new...

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Why is Polygyny More Prevalent in Western Africa?: An African Slave Trade Perspective

Dalton, John T.; Leung, Tin Cheuk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Polygyny rates are higher in Western Africa than in Eastern Africa. The African slave trades explain this difference. More male slaves were exported in the trans-Atlantic slave trades from Western Africa, while more female slaves were exported in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea slave trades from...

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