components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A …

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 African countries for the period 1996-2007. The law mechanisms of …

This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both … overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of … growth and human development beyond the mechanisms of law. Our results support the current consensus that, English common-law …

-orientation (Hypothesis 3); French civil law (Hypothesis 4) and Low income (Hypothesis 5). The tested hypotheses are largely invalid. Only …