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 … technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and development assistance differs …

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 …

countries are relevant for Africa. Second, when the concept of governance is not restricted to corruption, the findings become …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …, natural resources and landlockeness. While the Eubank hypothesis is invalid in baseline Africa, low-income and English common …