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Institutional benchmarking of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696007
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Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862077
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Reversed Economics and Inhumanity of Development Assistance in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862095
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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality
Asongu, Simplice A. - In: European Economic Letters 2 (2013) 1, pp. 12-19
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840472
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Foreign aid, investment and fiscal policy behavior: theory and empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Jellal, Mohamed - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118303
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International aid, corruption and fiscal policy behavior
Simplice, Simplice Anutechia Asongu; Mohamed, Mohamed Jellal - Association of African Young Economists - AAYE - 2014
The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption’ has had an important influence in policy and academic circles. This paper provides a unifying framework by using investment and fiscal behavior transmission channels in 53...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098412
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The Evolving Debate on the Effect of Foreign Aid on Corruption and Institutions in Africa
Simplice, Simplice Anutechia Asongu - Association of African Young Economists - AAYE - 2014
recently celebrated literature on development assistance. Overall, the findings show that the effects of foreign aid on … capacity levels; contingent on fundamental characteristics of development due to heterogeneity and; indirectly positive or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098423
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Foreign Aid and Corruption: Clarifying Murky Empirical Conclusions
EFOBI, Uchenna; BEECROFT, Ibukun; ASONGU, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
that both narratives in the debate are correct, contingent on the type of development assistance. The QR results are robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098706
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Foreign Aid and Governance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
that development assistance deteriorates economic (regulation quality and government effectiveness) and institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186561
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A brief clarification to the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development
Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 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 … the post-2015 development agenda. We also provide some recommendations for a rethinking of theories and models on which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103383