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This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...
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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 …
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qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are … qualities of democracy, we find that while the frequency of change has a beneficial impact on the qualities of democracy, the …
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literature, this studyattemmps to fill a gap in the tourism literature by investigating the moderating effect of democracy on the … that tourism and democracy unconditionally worsen income inequality. Moreover, democracy complements tourism to further …
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The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa …. This result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally …
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effective civil society participation and the improvement of the quality of democracy. …
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Motivated by the difficulty of ensuring gender equality and the chaotic state of democracy, we analyze the effects of … gender political inclusion and democracy on environmental policy performance. The study uses a panel of 45 African countries … inclusion and democracy positively affect environmental performance in all quantiles. These positive effects tend to be stronger …
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African countries for the period 1994-2010. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income … that democracy has an edge over autocracy while the latter and polity overlap. As a policy implication, democracy once …
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across the best and worst corruption-fighting countries especially with respect to democracy, population growth and economic …
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(an) tool (impediment) in (to) the fight against corruption in Low (Middle) income countries. (2) Democracy increases …
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