role of institutions as a mediating factor in the ethnicity-inequality nexus has not received the scholarly attention it … income disparityeven when interacted with institutions. On the policy front, institutional reforms tailored toward economic …

development objectives, heterogeneous factors that determines financial development remains imperfectly understood. This ambiguity … development remains inadequately met. Underexplored aspects such as geographic, political, economic and macroeconomic policy … determinant of financial development in Africa could have culminated into the misalignment of the continent financialisation …

dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM … implications are discussed in the light of the post-2015 development agenda. We also provide some recommendations for a rethinking … of theories and models on which development assistance is based. …

transfer. Building on the literature on the key role of a knowledge economy in 21st century development and catch-up processes … between the doctoral education, innovation, technology transfer and development catch-up. Implications for scientific research … policies in the light of contemporary challenges to African development are discussed. …