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This study examines how income-driven governance affects inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa with data …) governances. The main finding is that "middle income"-driven governance has a higher effect on inclusive human development than … "low income"-driven governance. Policy implications are discussed in the light of: (i) the contemporary relevance of …
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-2000 and 0.49% between 2000-2010). Human development which involves life expectancy, education and income is found to have a …
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. Governments, donors, and foreign investors have underinvested in African agriculture even though research evidence shows that … Moments to examine whether official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture and rural development is helping to boost … agriculture is primarily determined by agricultural need, and that the expected effectiveness increases the ODA receipts. Finally …
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) and agriculture. Despite increasing attention on the subject, existing studies are sparse on the channels through which … regression model to assess both the impact and transmission of ICTs on agriculture in 18 sub-Saharan African countries. The … agriculture but also a positive indirect effect through its impact on financial development and trade openness and a negative …
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Low productivity among female farmers when compared with their male counterparts is considered an outcome of limited access to agricultural land and inputs. The objective of this investigation was to assess the impact of multinational oil companies' (MOCs') CSR on rural women access to modern...
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Empirical evidence for the compensation hypothesis holds that trade openness independent of income risk has no … relationship between openness, income risk, terms of trade volatility and income per capita on government size in each of the 5 … effects of income per capita on government size for each country and some evidence of the mitigating and cushioning effects of …
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those in the low-income strata and by what mechanisms? We survey about 170 recently published papers to provide recent … finance, remittances, Payment for Environmental Services (PES) and the Diaspora Investment in Agriculture (DIA) initiative. …
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Given that challenges facing sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries on the issue of socioeconomic development have been identified as critical to strengthening the inherent link between governance and socioeconomic conditions, this study examines the interconnections between governance and SSA...
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This study examines the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary gender equality. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture. Drawing on the Parasite-Stress Theory, we propose a...
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The paper assesses the interconnections between FDI and human capital development in Nigeria over the period 1981-2018. The analysis is carried out with the use of both non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) and linear ARDL bounds test approach to cointegration, and VECM Granger...
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