Can African countries learn from the development experiences of other regions? Or are the continent’s development … challenges unique? This paper looks at the development experience of the Nordic countries, especially Sweden, from the nineteenth … century and discusses the extent to which the observed patterns of development could have relevance for Africa. The paper …

the same period for South East Asia and India, for instance. Meanwhile, human development had also resurged since the mid …

comparative development. We also show that ethnic inequality goes in tandem with lower levels development also within countries …

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 …

An April 2015 World Bank report on the Millennium Development Goal poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has … asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality increases when the return on capital is … development increases and Africa may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal solution, Piketty has proposed progressive …

' in its current state has the shortcoming of modeling corruption as a direct effect of development assistance. This note …’s consumption expenditure increases corruption. (2) Development assistance channeled via private investment and tax effort decreases …

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 …