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Law, democracy and the quality of government in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410343
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Law, politics and the quality of government in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496387
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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality
Asongu, Simplice A. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409986
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Institutional benchmarking of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
This paper integrates two main strands of the aid-development nexus in assessing whether institutional thresholds … matter in the effectiveness of foreign aid on institutional development in 53 African countries over the period 1996 … greater domestic institutional development has taken place. The reverse is true instead. Government quality benefits of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410060
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Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410235
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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short …-term poverty; address concerns of burgeoning population growth; train recipient governments on inclusive development; fight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409158
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Foreign aid, investment and fiscal policy behavior : theory and empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jellal, Mohammed - 2014
The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409169
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Economic implications of business dynamics for KE-associated economic growth and inclusive development in African countries
Asongu, Simplice A.; Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S.; … - 2014
economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to the 'inclusive development' of 53 African countries during the 1996 … doing business as expressed in the state of KE, and through it to the inclusive development via the economic growth of those … inclusive development. In fact, growth of this kind has stronger effects on inclusive development and by implication on poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409222
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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408491
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On the dynamic effects of foreign aid on corruption
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
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 proximity, openness to sea, natural resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408498