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. …

private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based …

levels of financial market development compared to their counterparts with autocratic inclinations. As a policy implication … quality of public offices that favour stock market development on the African continent. …

Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …

The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the … policy debate from growth to ‘quality of growth’ (QG). We explore a new dataset on QG by the IMF and classify 93 developing … the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health …

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. …

A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s … decades of GDP growth resurgence. The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First to understand the interconnections between the …’ postulates that: (i) one unit of currency deposited abroad represents a loss in financial development at home (ii) a fraction of …