class in these countries still engage in wasteful expenditure pattern. The question of demand for accountability and good … governance is rather ambiguous to the majority of the electorate as there is often a weakfiscal contract between them and the … expense of the elite class.This study expands the discussion on how an effective fiscal regime can help improve accountability …

This inquiry relates to the empirical linkages between educational quality, Facebook penetration and accountability … conditional linkages which articulate low, middle, and high initial levels of public accountability. It explores a cross … accountability dynamics. The established positive nexus is apparent in all quantiles of public accountability. In addition, tertiary …

The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …

renewable energy development and the mediating effects of governance on that relationship. For this purpose, the Ordinary Least … robust across alternative specifications of natural resources and governance, except for forest resources, which have a …. Second, governance interacts with natural resource rents to generate positive effects across different governance …

This paper forwards the view that some aspects of African culture enhance economic development on the continent while … other aspects tend to constrain development. By drawing on the extant literature on culture and development, the paper … processes on their overall development. We argue that insight into the development-constraining attributes of African culture …

Crimes and conflicts are seriously undermining African development. This article assesses the best governance tools in … & accountability have no significant negative correlations with crime. (2) The increasing relevance of government quality in the fight … population density. Justifications for the edge of corruption-control (as the most effective governance tool) and policy …

the fight seriously. (5) The relevance of voice and accountability in the battle against corruption decreases as … corruption-control is taking more seriously by the powers that be. (6) Good governance dynamics of political stability …

account for government quality dynamics of corruption-control, government-effectiveness, voice and accountability, political …

This study assesses the mobile phone in the diffusion of knowledge for better governance in sub-Saharan Africa for the … quality) and ten governance indicators that are bundled and unbundled. The following are the main findings. First, there is an … unconditional positive effect of mobile phone penetration on good governance. Second, the net effects on political, economic and …

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 …