behind the growth and convergence of the financial sector across 13 advanced economies from 2000 to 2015, focusing on the …. First, most nations experienced substantial growth in valueadded, coupled with a significant decrease in employment and … robust advancements in labor productivity. Next, the primary drivers of labor productivity growth and convergence across many …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on 'trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Secondly, when initial levels of growth come into play in …

countries, the financial openness policy in the Non-GCC countries have reduced the benefits of FDI on growth, this finding is …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Second, when initial levels of growth come into play in determining …

inconclusive, especially in developing economies. Here, this study examined the electricity consumption and economic growth nexus … electricity consumption-driven economic growth. This is desirable as Nigeria is heavily dependent on energy (electricity …) consumption. A unidirectional causality from urbanization to electricity consumption and economic growth was found but the long …

. Its purpose is to model the future of scientific knowledge monopoly in order to understand whether the impressive growth … experienced by latecomers in the industry has been accompanied by a similar catch-up in scientific capabilities and knowledge … conditional catch-up patterns broadly show that advanced countries will continue to dominate in scientific knowledge contribution …

whether the impressive growth experienced by 'latecomers in the industry' has moved hand-in-hand with contribution to … knowledge by means of scientific publications. Against this background, we model the obituary of scientific knowledge monopoly … obituary of scientific knowledge monopoly by developed countries is not in the near-horizon. Advanced nations that have …

Africa's overall knowledge index fell between 2000 and 2009. South Korea's economic miracle is largely due to a … knowledge-based development strategy that holds valuable lessons for African countries in their current pursuit towards … knowledge economies. Using updated data (1996-2010), this paper presents fresh South Korean lessons to Africa by assessing the …

hinders or promotes the knowledge economy (KE), (b) to determine how the KE which emerges from such an environment affects … economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to the 'inclusive development' of 53 African countries during the 1996 … doing business as expressed in the state of KE, and through it to the inclusive development via the economic growth of those …

The paper complements the scarce literature on knowledge economy (KE) in Africa by comparing KE dynamics within Africa … five dimensions of the World Bank's knowledge economy index (KEI) are employed, notably: education, information and …