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demonstrated trend of infrastructures in Africa in terms of stocks and future need is unique compared to the rest of the world. The … development in Africa. The results through the system GMM and Quantile Regression techniques show that women’s political … inclusion enhances infrastructural development in Africa. The result is robust across different measures of infrastructures and …
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state of infrastructure development in Africa stimulates structural change, understood as the development of the … structural change in Africa is optimized with the development of infrastructure, particularly energy and information and … order to reduce poverty and promote employment through commodity-based industrialization. How does infrastructure …
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countries between the 2003-2019 period show that infrastructural development exacerbates CO2 emission in Africa. This result is …
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Examining the value-added link between infrastructure and industrialization is fundamental to achieving Sustainable … Development Goal (SDG) 9, which consists of building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable … industrialisation in Africa. When the indirect effect regressions through the modulating effects of financial development and human …
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inclusive human development in Africa. The results of the system GMM estimations show a positive effect of infrastructural … development was established across all the infrastructure indicators except for the ICT indicator. Negative thresholds for … complementary policies are established for the African Infrastructure Development Index (AIDI) and the transport index while …
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Purpose - Given the ever-growing fiscal commitments of Nigeria and her chequered history of electricity generation and distribution, the fortunes of the energy sector in the country have been affected by the prevalence of energy poverty. Government policies such as public capital expenditure...
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Investment in ICT infrastructure development is crucial to international trade through its provision of reliable …-seeking behaviours of ICT infrastructure providers and reduces operational costs, among others. However, ICT infrastructural provision in … West Africa remains low, necessitating the current drive by the regional economic community (ECOWAS) to make some …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … infrastructure threshold of 2.583 indicating that countries with governance and infrastructure level higher than these values tend to … infrastructure), the established thresholds are low and situated between the 5 th and the 10th percentiles. Countries identified …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure moderate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … governance threshold of -1.210 and an infrastructure threshold of 2.583, indicating that countries with governance and … infrastructure levels higher than these values tend to benefit much more from the wealth of natural resources. With high levels of …
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Purpose - The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by Acemoglu and Johnson (2005), Ali (2013) and Asongu (2014). We assess the effects of various components of governance on private investment, notably: political, economic and...
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