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On taxation, political accountability and foreign aid: empirics to a celebrated literature
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
academic and policy-making debates. Eubank has warned that his findings should not be generalized across Africa until they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079384
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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
This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It entails a series of publications that have been successively motivated by feedbacks from academic and policy making circles. The plethora of papers explores debates sustaining the...
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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098706
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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-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM technique with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103383
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Institutional benchmarking of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
contingent on existing institutional levels in Africa. (2) But for a thin exception, foreign-aid is instrumental in institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108935
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Consult your gods: the questionable economics of development assistance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
as a sustainable cure to poverty in Africa. Though the stated intents or purposes of aid are socio-economic, the actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110001
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International aid corruption and fiscal behavior policy
Asongu, Simplice; Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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/10011110427
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The Evolving Debate on the Effect of Foreign Aid on Corruption and Institutions in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It entails a series of publications that have been successively motivated by feedbacks from academic and policy making circles. The plethora of papers explores debates sustaining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111694
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International aid, corruption and fiscal policy behavior
Asongu, Simplice A; Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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/10011112314