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Reversed Economics and Inhumanity of Development Assistance in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - 2012
sustainable cure to poverty in Africa. Social implications – It is a momentous epoque to solve the second tragedy of foreign aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230565
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The political economy of development assistance: peril to government quality dynamics in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - 2012
This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in improving government institutions in 52 African countries using updated data(1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption-control, political-stability, rule of law, regulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230566
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On the effect of foreign aid on corruption
Simplice A, Asongu - 2012
& Samreth(2012, EL) finding for developing countries may not be relevant for Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230567
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Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - 2012
are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign-aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The panel quantile regression …-economic prosperity nexus are unlikely to succeed in Africa; thus policy measures should be contingent on prevailing levels of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015231492
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Institutional benchmarking of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - 2012
contingent on existing institutional levels in Africa. (2) But for a thin exception, foreign-aid is instrumental in institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015231493
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Increasing foreign aid for inclusive human development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta - 2017
In the light of evidence that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the World with the exception of Africa …, where about 45 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257364
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Foreign aid and sustainable inclusive human development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2018
Motivated by evidence that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015262962
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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality
Asongu, Simplice A - 2013
We extend the Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption’ by: not partially negating the former’s methodological underpinning (as in the latter’s approach) with a unifying empirical framework and; broadening the horizon of inquiry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015236861
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Consult your gods: the questionable economics of development assistance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A - 2013
as a sustainable cure to poverty in Africa. Though the stated intents or purposes of aid are socio-economic, the actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015237887
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On the channels of foreign aid to corruption
Asongu, Simplice A; Jellal, Mohamed - 2013
The debate by Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption’ in its current state has the shortcoming of modeling corruption as a direct effect of development assistance. This note extends the debate by assessing the channels of foreign...
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