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Nigeria. This tendency engenders multiplier effects in stimulating sustainable development given that education-driven growth …, through education especially at higher levels, will allow human capital to evolve dynamically and increase long-run growth in … growth. Therefore, investments in education have been identified as a vital channel for building human capital and achieving …
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benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the … the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health …
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The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the … the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly …
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policy options, the dataset is disaggregated into fundamental characteristics of African development based on income levels … characteristics of development. Policy implications, caveats and directions for future research are discussed. …
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, education, and information infrastructure. The main finding suggests that sub- Saharan African ( SSA ) and the Middle East and …
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This research assesses the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in primary education quality in … reduce poor quality education and enhancing internet penetration has a net negative effect o f greater magnitude. From the … penetration, ICT consistently has a negative effect on poor education quality with a non-monotonic pattern. (ii) Net negative …
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The study investigates whether development assistance can be used to crowd-out the negative effect of terrorism on … is primarily in countries with above median levels of international trade that development assistance can be used as an …
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This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996-2010. An autoregressive...
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by answering two critical questions: what are the linkages between the ease of doing business and economic development … ease of doing business and economic development is discussed in six main strands, namely: wealth creation and sharing …; opportunities of employment; balanced regional and economic development; Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and GDP per capita; standards …
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Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from recently published papers on development …
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