Despite the evolving literature on the development benefits of mobile phones, we still know very little about factors …, (v) external flows and (vi) human development. Results are presented in terms of threshold and non-threshold effects. The … former has three main implications. First, there are increasing positive benefits in regulation quality, human development …

Despite the evolving literature on the development benefits of mobile phones, we still know very little about factors …, (v) external flows and (vi) human development. Results are presented in terms of threshold and non-threshold effects. The … former has three main implications. First, there are increasing positive benefits in regulation quality, human development …

unexplored. In this paper we use a new cross-country panel climate data set in an economic growth framework to explore the issue …. Our results show that rainfall has been a significant determinants of poor economic growth for Africa but not for other …

a major way to the economic development of the continent. It is a crucial determinant, as findings indicate a … significant and positive correlation between telecommunication infrastructures and regional growth in Africa, after controlling …

Despite over three decades of Liberalisation policies in Africa, income-inequality has stayed persistently high. Using …

countries are relevant for Africa. Second, when the concept of governance is not restricted to corruption, the findings become …

Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on …

, business/bank, market-related, knowledge economy, external flows and human development. The empirical evidence is based on … development, especially in the contemporary specifications. Fourth, mobile banking is positively linked with: (i) trade in …) internet penetration and human development, with contemporary threshold evidence. The policy implications are articulated with …

-institutions’ literature by examining how aid instabilities affect an aggregate index of governance dynamics in Africa. …

Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …