...Stanley Emife Nwani Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the interactive role of human capital development (HCD) in foreign aid-growth relations in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa countries from 1985–2019. Design/methodology/approach The study used panel data that cut across all...

... set over a period of 35 years, the authors demonstrate that foreign aid has had varied impacts on economic growth depending on the political ideology of the government in power. Findings With capitalist political philosophy, foreign aid improves private sector growth through infrastructural...

...Girijasankar Mallik; Shrabani Saha Purpose This paper investigates the corruption-growth relationship in a sample of 146 countries for the period – 1984-2009. While negative effects of corruption on growth have drawn economists’ interest in recent years, our main contribution is to examine...

... significantly since 2003, and the FDI was linked to the resource industry and accounted for most of the increase. Growth CGE model Laos Mining booms 26 08 2015 26 08 2015 19 10 2015 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use...

...Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin Purpose The paper aims at re‐examining the notion of low and stable income inequality during the high growth period of Indonesia (1970s‐1990s). Design/methodology/approach Different approaches are used to reassess the low and stable trend of the overall inequality...