Suchergebnisse

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 countries for the period 1996-2010. Findings unite the two streams of the debate and broadly suggest that while the 'government's final consumption expenditure' channel is consistent with the latter author, the investment and tax effort channels are in line with the former authors. Justifications for the nexuses are provided. Policy implications on how to use foreign aid constraints in managing fiscal behavior as means of reducing (increasing) corruption (corruption-control) are discussed.

'Should be on the shelf of any academic, student, NGO activist or politician with an interest in aid issues. It should also be required reading for donor agency officials'Development and Change'As accessible as it is comprehensive? has established itself as a reliable 'watchdog' for anyone interested in this important aspect of international relations'ORBITDespite commitments to eradicate poverty, 21 of the world's richest nations have slashed their aid to the world's poorest countries to just 0.3% of GNP, its lowest level for more than 20 years. In real terms, aid in 1994 was below the 1990 l

Examines diplomatic challenges facing Western nations in their changing relationship with Russia and other former communist countries; some focus on the Founding Act, signed by Russia in May 1997 to assure foreign economic assistance by giving up their opposition to NATO enlargement; since 1991, chiefly.