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renewable energy development and the mediating effects of governance on that relationship. For this purpose, the Ordinary Least … renewable energy. First, we find that natural resources enhance renewable energy development in Africa and that the results are … robust across alternative specifications of natural resources and governance, except for forest resources, which have a …
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This study assesses the effect of globalisation on governance in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Ten … bundled and unbundled governance indicators and four globalisation variables are used. The empirical evidence is based on … Generalised Method of Moments. The following findings are established. First, on political governance, only social globalisation …
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This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate …
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This study assesses the mobile phone in the diffusion of knowledge for better governance in sub-Saharan Africa for the … phones in mitigating bad governance in Africa. The evidence of some insignificant net effects and decreasing marginal impacts … quality) and ten governance indicators that are bundled and unbundled. The following are the main findings. First, there is an …
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contributions to and dissemination of knowledge through scientific and technical publications in Africa. IPRs laws (treaties) on …
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This paper examines how Africa's share in the contribution to global scientific knowledge can be boosted with existing …
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countries are relevant for Africa. Second, when the concept of governance is not restricted to corruption, the findings become …The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could … (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's findings. Then extend the concept of governance from corruption to …
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Crimes and conflicts are seriously undermining African development. This article assesses the best governance tools in … population density. Justifications for the edge of corruption-control (as the most effective governance tool) and policy …
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corruption-control is taking more seriously by the powers that be. (6) Good governance dynamics of political stability …
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This paper examines the big questions of African comparative politics. It assesses the interaction of three crucial components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income-levels,...
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