Purpose - Poverty and inequality undoubtedly remain substantial challenges to economic and human developments amid … piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are … instrumental in the piracy-inequality nexus. Design/methodology/approach - Two-Stage-Least Squares estimation approaches are …

corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption … corruption, implying, corruption-control offsets crime emanating beyond the corruption mechanism (inter alia, other poor …

& accountability have no significant negative correlations with crime. (2) The increasing relevance of government quality in the fight …) Corruption-control is the most effective mechanism in fighting crime (conflicts). The findings are significantly strong when …

examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the … regressions, there is a negative relationship between Facebook penetration and crime. However, Quantile regressions reveal that … the established negative relationship is noticeable exclusively in the 90 th crime quantile. Further, when the dataset is …

which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure …) political liberalization has a disequalizing effect and; (3) economic freedom has a positive (negative) effect on inequality … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …

inequality empirics. While ethnic diversity h asalso been identified as one of the fundamental causes of income inequality, the … role of institutions as a mediating factor in the ethnicity-inequality nexus has not received the scholarly attention it … framework corrects the noisy influence originating from the nexus between "ethnic diversity" and inequality in 26 sub -Saharan …

This study examined the impact of income inequality on female labour force participation in West Africa for the period … inequality. For robustness, the study also utilises female employment and female unemployment as measures of female labour force … empirical results reveal that the three measures of income inequality significantly reduce the participation of women in the …