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inclusive human development in Africa. The results of the system GMM estimations show a positive effect of infrastructural … development was established across all the infrastructure indicators except for the ICT indicator. Negative thresholds for … complementary policies are established for the African Infrastructure Development Index (AIDI) and the transport index while …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … infrastructure threshold of 2.583 indicating that countries with governance and infrastructure level higher than these values tend to … infrastructure), the established thresholds are low and situated between the 5 th and the 10th percentiles. Countries identified …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure moderate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … governance threshold of -1.210 and an infrastructure threshold of 2.583, indicating that countries with governance and … infrastructure levels higher than these values tend to benefit much more from the wealth of natural resources. With high levels of …
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The paper verifies the Azzimonti et al. (2014) conclusions on a sample of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2008. Authors of the underlying study have established theoretical underpinnings for a negative nexus between rising public debt and inequality in OECD nations. We assess the...
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This paper integrates a previously missing wealth-effect component in the openness-finance debate. From a panel of 29 low and middle income African countries with data spanning from 1987 to 2008, we provide evidence that openness (trade and financial) triggers less bank efficiency in low income...
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Purpose - Our generation is witnessing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the heart of it. There is …
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Our generation is experiencing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the center of it. There is mounting …
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of banking system efficiency in Africa. Results which are robust to financial system efficiency and growth … be done on the improvement of infrastructure that curtails information asymmetry in the banking industry. …
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This paper assesses how legal origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law. It employs all the dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The law channels are instrumented with legal origins to account...
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-Saharan Africa is slightly below the average of Francophone Africa. As a policy implication, results support the benefits of the rule …
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