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Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012

development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions … technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and development assistance differs … throughout the distributions of development dynamics. Findings – Three main findings are established. (1) With slight exceptions …

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Financial development dynamic thresholds of financial globalization: evidence from Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012

development has taken place in African countries. Design/methodology/approach – In framing the financial dimension in a more … the financial development benefits of financial globalization. The estimation approach consists of assessing the impact of … financial globalization through-out the conditional distributions of domestic financial development dynamics. Findings – The …

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

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 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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Reversed Economics and Inhumanity of Development Assistance in Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012

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 …

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On foreign aid distortions to governance

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could seriously affect debates in academic and policy making circles. Using the theoretical underpinnings of the celebrated Eubank (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye’s...

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A Development Consensus reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus: Views and Agenda

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on …

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The Evolving Debate on the Effect of Foreign Aid on Corruption and Institutions in Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

recently celebrated literature on development assistance. Overall, the findings show that the effects of foreign aid on … capacity levels; contingent on fundamental characteristics of development due to heterogeneity and; indirectly positive or …

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International aid, corruption and fiscal policy behavior

Asongu, Asongu Simplice; Jellal, Jellal Mohamed - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption’ has had an important influence in policy and academic circles. This paper provides a unifying framework by using investment and fiscal behavior transmission channels in 53...

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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 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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The questionable economics of development assistance in Africa: hot-fresh evidence, 1996-2010

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

This paper assesses the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new … indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). The effects of Total Net Official Development Assistance (NODA), NODA … from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and NODA from Multilateral donors on economic prosperity (at national and …

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