A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s …, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …

This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty, contingent on the macroeconomic environment within the remit … regression. The results reveal that while poverty has a positive effect on the spread of bribery, inflation can mitigate the … words, the attendant results indicate that the impact of poverty on bribery becomes negative when inflation increases. The …

This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It … institutions. Moreover, another debate on the incidence of foreign aid distortions on corruption is also assessed in light of a … recently celebrated literature on development assistance. Overall, the findings show that the effects of foreign aid on …

, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty …

This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing … that both narratives in the debate are correct, contingent on the type of development assistance. The QR results are robust …

The need for gender inclusion was highlighted as the fifth sustainable development goal (SDG) (i.e. SDG5) and policies … development in Africa. The results through the system GMM and Quantile Regression techniques show that women’s political … inclusion enhances infrastructural development in Africa. The result is robust across different measures of infrastructures and …

order to reduce poverty and promote employment through commodity-based industrialization. How does infrastructure … state of infrastructure development in Africa stimulates structural change, understood as the development of the … structural change in Africa is optimized with the development of infrastructure, particularly energy and information and …

countries between the 2003-2019 period show that infrastructural development exacerbates CO2 emission in Africa. This result is … robust across different types of infrastructural development indexes. When the indirect effect regressions are carried out by … interacting governance and trade openness with the different infrastructural development variables, the following results are …