Introduction -- Who controls the IMF? -- Domestic interests and IMF programs -- The impact of the shareholders on IMF programs -- Testing the argument -- IMF lending -- IMF lending and the crisis in Europe -- IMF conditionality -- IMF conditionality and the Asian crisis -- Theory, evidence and...

This paper contributes to the aid effectiveness debate by applying a vector autoregression model to a panel of Sub-Saharan African countries. This method avoids the need for instrumental variables and allows one to analyse the impact of foreign aid on human development and on economic...

This paper examines the effect that experiencing corruption has on an individual's mental health using microeconomic data from the Afrobarometer surveys. The results show a statistically significant and economically meaningful effect in both binary and ordered probit models using both an...