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This inquiry relates to the empirical linkages between educational quality, Facebook penetration and accountability … conditional linkages which articulate low, middle, and high initial levels of public accountability. It explores a cross … accountability dynamics. The established positive nexus is apparent in all quantiles of public accountability. In addition, tertiary …
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class in these countries still engage in wasteful expenditure pattern. The question of demand for accountability and good … governance is rather ambiguous to the majority of the electorate as there is often a weakfiscal contract between them and the … expense of the elite class.This study expands the discussion on how an effective fiscal regime can help improve accountability …
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This paper forwards the view that some aspects of African culture enhance economic development on the continent while … other aspects tend to constrain development. By drawing on the extant literature on culture and development, the paper … processes on their overall development. We argue that insight into the development-constraining attributes of African culture …
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Crimes and conflicts are seriously undermining African development. This article assesses the best governance tools in … & accountability have no significant negative correlations with crime. (2) The increasing relevance of government quality in the fight … population density. Justifications for the edge of corruption-control (as the most effective governance tool) and policy …
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Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions have been covered substantially in recent literature. Despite the wealth of theoretical and empirical studies on this subject, there is no study that has reviewed existing literature in light of concerns over sustainable and equitable management. This...
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The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could … (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's findings. Then extend the concept of governance from corruption to … Kangoye. It follows that in the presence of foreign aid uncertainty, governments could be constrained to improve governance …
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This paper examines how Africa's share in the contribution to global scientific knowledge can be boosted with existing Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) mechanisms. The findings which broadly indicate that tight IPRs are correlated with knowledge contribution can be summarized in two main...
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, which affects governance and through governance the knowledge economy. The claim addresses one weakness of previous research … effects on peace and stability, and peace and stability affect governance differently depending on what kind of globalization … induces it. For instance, the effects on governance induced by globalization defined as trade are stronger than those …
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This paper is an extension of the debate on the nexus between the strength of IPRs and prospects for knowledge economy. It assesses the relationships between software piracy and scientific publications in African countries for which data is available. The findings which reveal a positive nexus...
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Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions have been covered substantially in recent literature. Despite the wealth of theoretical and empirical studies on this subject, there is no study that has reviewed existing literature in light of concerns over sustainable and equitable management. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390891