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Aid and poverty : why does aid not address poverty (much)?

Shepherd, Andrew W.; Bishop, Sylvia - 2013

approach to development, which would give much greater weight to the poorest, in practice languishes at the margins of … development, though where this has been taken up in middle-income countries (e.g., India) donors have stood on the sidelines …

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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : a survey

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

-term poverty; address concerns of burgeoning population growth; train recipient governments on inclusive development; fight …This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short …

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Unwelcome Benefits : Why Welfare Beneficiaries Reject Government Aid?

Orbach, Barak - 2008

Participation rates in most means-tested welfare programs in the United States are low. Many low-income individuals refrain from using welfare benefits available for them, although their value of such benefits is presumably high. This Article studies the causes of forgone welfare benefits...

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On the dynamic effects of foreign aid on corruption

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional proximity, openness to sea, natural resources and...

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Foreign aid and governance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2014

that development assistance deteriorates economic (regulation quality and government effectiveness) and institutional …

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Foreign aid, investment and fiscal policy behavior : theory and empirical evidence

Asongu, Simplice A.; Jellal, Mohammed - 2014

private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based …

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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 …

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Foreign aid and corruption : clarifying murky empirical conclusions

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Beecroft, Ibukun; Asongu, … - 2014

that both narratives in the debate are correct, contingent on the type of development assistance. The QR results are robust …

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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 …

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The questionable economics of development assistance in Africa : hot-fresh evidence, 1996 - 2010

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

growth, GDP per capita growth and inequality adjusted human development. The magnitude of negativity (which is consistent …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 …

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