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Africa is becoming the fastest-growing continent despite significant challenges to accessing finance and the use of technology. This research aims to examine the direct effect of mobile money adoption on firm performance and its indirect effect by examining how it moderates the effect of access...
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Crimes and conflicts are seriously undermining African development. This article assesses the best governance tools in … 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
governance determinants using a battery of contemporary and non-contemporary estimation techniques. The following findings are …, they are not for net FDI. Second, for contemporary specifications, the significance of the governance dynamics is as … follows in increasing order of magnitude: general governance, political governance, economic governance, political stability …
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unbundling of ten governance dynamics. Design/methodology/approach- Contemporary and non-contemporary Fixed- and Random …-Effects regressions are employed as empirical strategies. GDP growth and real GDP output are used as dependent variables. The governance … variables are bundled by means of principal component analysis. Findings- The following are some findings. First, governance is …
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