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 …

instruments in fighting inflation than financial efficiency and activity. (3) The financial intermediary dynamic of size appears …

Variable technique. Instruments include: legal-origins; income-levels and religious-dominations. The first-step consists of … on other covariates(control variables). In the third-step, the validity of the instruments is examined with the Sargan … interchangeable sets of instruments. Findings - Findings broadly reveal the following: (1) money(depth) and credit(activity) which are …

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 … technique used is a Two-Stage-Least Squares Instrumental Variable approach. Instruments include: income-levels, legal …

academic debates. This paper partially negates their criticism of the mainstream approach to the aid-development nexus. Using … updated data(1996-2010) from 52 African countries we provide robust evidence of a positive aid-corruption nexus. Development …