absolute or relative. Another issue is whether pro-poor judgements should put relatively more emphasis on the impact of growth …

This paper integrates two main strands of the aid-development nexus in assessing whether institutional thresholds … matter in the effectiveness of foreign aid on institutional development in 53 African countries over the period 1996 … greater domestic institutional development has taken place. The reverse is true instead. Government quality benefits of …

distribution. This implies high-growth countries are more likely to benefit from development assistance (in terms of general … foreign aid by focusing on the distribution of the dependent variables (development dynamics). It is likely that high- and low-growth …Purpose - This paper examines whether initial levels in GDP growth, GDP per capita growth and inequality adjusted human …

An April 2015 World Bank report on the Millennium Development Goal poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has … asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality increases when the return on capital is … higher than the growth rate, because the poor cannot catch-up with the rich. We argue that when the return on political …

-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 …

short-term poverty; address concerns of burgeoning population growth; train recipient governments on inclusive development …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 including, inter alia: mitigate …

The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … population: there can be groups of the population made poorer or non-poor made poor by growth. We propose an approach that allows …

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 …

This paper integrates two main strands of the aid-development nexus in assessing whether institutional thresholds … matter in the effectiveness of foreign aid on institutional development in 53 African countries over the period 1996 … greater domestic institutional development has taken place. The reverse is true instead. Government quality benefits of …