The impact of foreign financial inflows on the economic growth of recipient countries is a controversial issue in many empirical studies. The majority of the previous studies use one variable as an indicator of foreign financial inflows; they fail to incorporate many variables. The study fills...

Indeed, China's ascent is significantly changing the landscape in aid-donor and aid-recipient relationship for African countries, despite the changes, empirical studies on the determinant and motive is lacking. Therefore, this paper examines the determinants of China's financial aid to oil/...

This paper used the Johansen Cointegration test and system Generalised Method of Moments (sysGMM) to examine the dynamic relations between external debt and economic growth in 43 African countries over the period 2001-2018. The study used data from World Development Indicators (WDI) as published...

Despite the presence of a considerable corpus of literature investigating the impact of aid on nations' development, the efficiency of utilizing this finite pool of development finance remains ambiguous. The main aim of this study is to address the existing research gap by examining the...

The global economy has been facing a series of adverse shocks in recent years including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, and interest rate shocks driven by global monetary policy normalization. The high cost of fossil fuels since 2021,...

Aim/purpose - External aid allocation by the donors in recent years has been fraught with instability and volatility. This has a negative consequence on the recipient economies particularly those that are highly aid-dependent. A good solution to the problem requires much understanding of factors...

In den ersten beiden Jahrzehnten nach dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs Anfang der 1990er Jahre spielte der Internationale Währungsfonds (IWF) für die operative Wirtschaftspolitik, aber auch für die Gestaltung von Institutionen in Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländern eine wichtige Rolle. Dies lag...

This article analyses the impact of public debt on sustainability as measured by the genuine savings indicator covering the period from 2004 to 2018. The methodology adopted is based on dynamic panel generalized methods of moments (GMM). The results after estimation show a negative and...

This study provides a harmonization framework for common capital flight policies in Africa. It builds on evidence of persistent extreme poverty in the continent to assess how common measures can be adopted by sampled countries on one cause of extreme poverty: capital flight. The dataset is...

This study investigates the link between the composition of growth, institutions, and external debt reduction. Despite the rising external debt stock profile and dwindling domestic revenue of almost all the African countries, very few or no studies have investigated the composition of...