-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as …

We model a firm in an institutional market setting, consisting of a production technology and its governance. The … governance consists of a hierarchical firm structure, a cost efficiency parameter,and an internal pay system. The depth of the …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …

The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could … (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's findings. Then extend the concept of governance from corruption to … Kangoye. It follows that in the presence of foreign aid uncertainty, governments could be constrained to improve governance …

This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid … instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African …: total aid, aid from multilateral donors and bilateral aid. Principal Component Analysis is used to bundle governance …

economically rational. Analysing the determinants of debt relief our results suggest that governance quality did not play a role in … 21st century, when the path dependence became less strong and at least some dimensions of governance quality have been …