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On the channels of foreign aid to corruption
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jellal, Mohamed - 2013
' in its current state has the shortcoming of modeling corruption as a direct effect of development assistance. This note …'s consumption expenditure increases corruption. (2) Development assistance channeled via private investment and tax effort decreases …
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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
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/10011390842
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International aid, corruption and fiscal policy behavior
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jellal, Mohamed - 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 African...
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The Evolving Debate on the Effect of Foreign Aid on Corruption and Institutions in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 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/10011390867
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On foreign aid distortions to governance
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could seriously affect debates in academic and policy making circles. Using the theoretical underpinnings of the celebrated Eubank (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390868
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On taxation, political accountability and foreign aid: empirics to a celebrated literature
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The Eubank (2012, JDS) findings on taxation, political accountability and foreign aid has had an important influence in academic and policy-making debates. Eubank has warned that his findings should not be generalized across Africa until they are backed by robust empirical evidence. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390875
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Foreign Aid and Corruption: Clarifying Murky Empirical Conclusions
Efobi, Uchenna; Beecroft, Ibukun; Asongu, Simplice A. - 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/10011390881
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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 … 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/10011390882
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The questionable economics of development assistance in Africa: hot-fresh evidence, 1996-2010
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
This paper assesses the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new … indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). The effects of Total Net Official Development Assistance (NODA), NODA … from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and NODA from Multilateral donors on economic prosperity (at national and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390885
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Taxation, foreign aid and political governance: figures to the facts of a celebrated literature
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
This paper puts figures to the facts of Eubank (2012), a recently celebrated paper in the Journal of Development … dataset is disaggregated into fundamental characteristics of African development based on income-levels, legal origins … law countries of the continent, we cannot conclude on its validity for other fundamental characteristics of development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390887