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This study assesses the effect of globalisation on governance in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Ten … bundled and unbundled governance indicators and four globalisation variables are used. The empirical evidence is based on … Generalised Method of Moments. The following findings are established. First, on political governance, only social globalisation …
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This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on...
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governance determinants using a battery of contemporary and non-contemporary estimation techniques. The following findings are …, they are not for net FDI. Second, for contemporary specifications, the significance of the governance dynamics is as … follows in increasing order of magnitude: general governance, political governance, economic governance, political stability …
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Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions have been covered substantially in recent literature. Despite the wealth of theoretical and empirical studies on this subject, there is no study that has reviewed existing literature in light of concerns over sustainable and equitable management. This...
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, which affects governance and through governance the knowledge economy. The claim addresses one weakness of previous research … effects on peace and stability, and peace and stability affect governance differently depending on what kind of globalization … induces it. For instance, the effects on governance induced by globalization defined as trade are stronger than those …
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The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could … (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's findings. Then extend the concept of governance from corruption to … Kangoye. It follows that in the presence of foreign aid uncertainty, governments could be constrained to improve governance …
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Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions have been covered substantially in recent literature. Despite the wealth of theoretical and empirical studies on this subject, there is no study that has reviewed existing literature in light of concerns over sustainable and equitable management. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409817
This paper examines the big questions of African comparative politics. It assesses the interaction of three crucial components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income-levels,...
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' fragile governance quality. Nonetheless, the optimism, which we provide by way of threshold analysis shows that channelling … resources into the development of these governance dynamics yield positive net effects from the short-term through to the long …
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relevant threshold levels required for the various governance dynamics to cause Chinese FDI to equalise incomes in Africa. Our … propelling Chinese FDI towards the equalisation of incomes across the continent, governance mechanisms for ensuring political … governance dynamics to propel Chinese FDI to reduce income inequality are 0.8, 0.5 and 0.1, respectively. These critical masses …
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