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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 …

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and … entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between …

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Religious values, secular education and development:empirical evidence from some Latin American countries

Aldieri, Luigi; Autiero, Giuseppina - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 5 (2013) 1, pp. 15-32

invest in higher education. Notably religion may adapt to the cultural changes triggered by economic development and … modernization, which influences the prevailing effect of religion on education. These aspects are investigated through an … from some Latin American countries. The results seem to support the role of development as a force driving the process of …

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Under the Thumb of History? Political Institutions and the Scope for Action

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 951-971

This article discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are mainly products of historical logic, whereas for others, accidents, leaders, and decisions have a significant impact. We argue that although there is clear evidence that...

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The Evolving Debate on the Effect of Foreign Aid on Corruption and Institutions in Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 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 …

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International aid, corruption and fiscal policy behavior

Asongu, Asongu Simplice; Jellal, Jellal Mohamed - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 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...

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What do we know about the private sectors contribution to development?

Callan, Margaret - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

Business is increasingly seen by international aid agencies as a partner in development. Recommendation 21 of the … currently provides on its development contributions. The key finding is unsurprising: private sector reporting is oriented to … serve the needs of business, not that of the development community. The paper suggests ways in which corporate reporting …

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An Exploration of the Link Between Development, Economic Growth, and Natural Risk

Hallegatte, Stéphane - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters … development and slower than income at high levels of development. In that case, increasing risk-taking reinforces economic growth …-taking is both a driver and a consequence of economic development, and should not be indiscriminately suppressed. The …

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Economic Growth and Risk Taking: Is it Rational to Suffer from Increasing Disaster Losses?

Hallegatte, Stéphane - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2013) September

This article draws from a study that investigates the link between development, economic growth and the economic losses …

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Labor Surplus Revisited

Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

development. Yet, even as at given technologies labor markets have not cleared, neo-classical economists have rejected the notion …

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