A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s …' postulates that: (i) one unit of currency deposited abroad represents a loss in financial development at home (ii) a fraction of …

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 …

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 …Structural change is seen by development economics theorists as a driver of sustained and sustainable economic growth …

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 …Structural change is seen by development economics theorists as a driver of sustained and sustainable economic growth …

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 …

This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … development. Third, the favorable effect of natural resources on economic growth requires a governance threshold of -1.210 and an … infrastructure threshold of 2.583 indicating that countries with governance and infrastructure level higher than these values tend to …

We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of … foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional … on corruption is most significant in: Middle-income, French civil-law, Christian-dominated, non-oil exporting and …

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 …

updated data (1996-2010) from 52 African countries we provide robust evidence of a positive aid-corruption nexus. Development …The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) finding that aid deters corruption could have an important influence on policy and … academic debates. This paper partially negates their criticism of the mainstream approach to the aid-development nexus. Using …