This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It … institutions. Moreover, another debate on the incidence of foreign aid distortions on corruption is also assessed in light of a … corruption and institutions are: directly positive; conditionally positive with a magnitude dependent on initial institutional …

This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing …

The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption' has … reducing (increasing) corruption (corruption-control) are discussed …

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 … on corruption is most significant in: Middle-income, French civil-law, Christian-dominated, non-oil exporting and …

The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) finding that aid deters corruption could have an important influence on policy and … updated data (1996-2010) from 52 African countries we provide robust evidence of a positive aid-corruption nexus. Development … assistance fuels (mitigates) corruption (the control of corruption) in the African continent. As a policy implication, the Okada …

dispensation is young, comprehensive empirical works to this effect in the case of Africa are hard to find. This study, therefore … Africa. Second, the study investigates the joint effect of economic development and elections on debt servicing in Africa … periods are associated with lower debt servicing in Africa, and (2) economic development is significant in enhancing debt …

, legal origins, natural resources and landlockedness. While the hypothesis is invalid in baseline Africa, low income and …

, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …

corruption and mismanagement and; avoid the shortfalls of celebrated Kuznets' conjectures. We discuss how the essay addresses …