out of a development trap. …

out of a development trap. …

Education as a tool in the fight against corruption has been subject to much debate in academic and policy making … learning and synergy effects. Four main findings are established. First, education is a powerful tool in the fight against … corruption. Second, there is evidence of an incremental effect in the transition from secondary to tertiary education. Third …

conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …

updated data (1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption …

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 …

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 …

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 …