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This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to …
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The paper verifies the Azzimonti et al. (2014) conclusions on a sample of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2008. Authors of the underlying study have established theoretical underpinnings for a negative nexus between rising public debt and inequality in OECD nations. We assess the...
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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 Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...
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Contrary to mainstream consensus on the dominance of English common law countries in investment prospects, this paper sets a new tone in the legal origins debate by providing empirical validity on the dominance of French civil-law countries in private investment. The assessment is based on 38...
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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 Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058464
This study examines complementarities between inclusive development, military expenditure and political stability in the fight against terrorism in 53 African countries for the period 1998-2012. Hence the policy variables employed in the study are inclusive development, military expenditure and...
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The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only …. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for now, its position in the world system, it may nonetheless create the …
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patterns in Africa. The Instrumental Variable Two Stage Least Squares (IV-2SLS) estimation technique is adopted for a panel of … capital are development enhancing in Africa while external financial inflows are detrimental to economic development. In …
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This study empirically examines the effect of sustainable urbanization on vulnerability to climate change over a sample … that sustainable urbanization reduces vulnerability to climate change. The results of the indirect analysis also show that … sustainable urbanization significantly reduces vulnerability to climate change through the channels of digitalization and …
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severe threat to environmental sustainability in Africa. Hence, we examine the role of regulatory quality on environmental … crosssectional dependence in Africa; as a result, we employ the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) method and Common Correlated Effect Mean … mediate pollution in Africa via urbanisation and energy consumption channels, and (iv) The interaction of regulatory quality …
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