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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019

countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …-bust patterns in Southern Africa and insignificant responses in Central and West Africa. Firm-level customs data reveal that even in … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …

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2013 Harold Mitchell Development Policy Annual Lecture : The Challenges of Aid Dependency and Economic Reform - Africa and the Pacific

Adams, Jim - 2014

working on Africa, leading the Bank's program as the Regional Director in Kenya in the late 1980s and as Country Director in … economic reform emerged in Africa and related institutional and capacity issues. Drawing on this and his Pacific experience, he …

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On the dynamic effects of foreign aid on corruption

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

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 proximity, openness to sea, natural resources and...

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Foreign aid and governance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2014

influence the election and replacement of political leaders in Africa may have insignificant results. It is time to solve the … paper extends the debate on foreign aid and institutions in Africa in the light a plethora of recent studies in the aid …

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Foreign aid, investment and fiscal policy behavior : theory and empirical evidence

Asongu, Simplice A.; Jellal, Mohammed - 2014

The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...

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A brief clarification to the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

The study clarifies the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development. It investigates the effect of a plethora of foreign aid dynamics on the inequality adjusted human development index. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM technique with...

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Foreign aid and corruption : clarifying murky empirical conclusions

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Beecroft, Ibukun; Asongu, … - 2014

This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing heterogeneity dimension of aid. The relationship was estimated using dynamic system GMM and quantile regressions (QR). Results show that both narratives in the debate are...

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