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 …

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 …

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 …

Financial development indicators are often applied to countries/regions without taking into account specific financial … development realities. Financial depth in the perspective of monetary base is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development … context. This paper introduces complementary indicators to the existing Financial Development and Structure Database (FDSD …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …

policy recommendation, the role of sound political institutions is crucial for financial development in Africa. Democracies … stock market development in the African continent. Originality/value - To the best of our knowledge this is the first paper … plagued many African countries and continue to pose a significant threat to financial market development. …

This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious … propensity to effect policies that favour the development of financial intermediary depth, activity and size. Democracy has … policies towards financial development. As a policy implication, once democracy is initiated, it should be accelerated (to edge …

development has taken place in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach - In framing the financial dimension in a more … financial development benefits of financial globalization. The estimation approach consists of assessing the impact of financial … globalization through-out the conditional distributions of domestic financial development dynamics. Findings - The introduction of …

updated data (1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption …

development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions … technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and development assistance differs … throughout the distributions of development dynamics. Findings - Three main findings are established. (1) With slight exceptions …