transfer. Building on the literature on the key role of a knowledge economy in 21st century development and catch-up processes … between the doctoral education, innovation, technology transfer and development catch-up. Implications for scientific research … policies in the light of contemporary challenges to African development are discussed. …

An April 2015 World Bank report on the Millennium Development Goal poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has … asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality increases when the return on capital is … development increases and Africa may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal solution, Piketty has proposed progressive …

levels of financial market development compared to their counterparts with autocratic inclinations. As a policy implication … quality of public offices that favour stock market development on the African continent. …

A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …' postulates that: (i) one unit of currency deposited abroad represents a loss in financial development at home (ii) a fraction of …

Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …

, business/bank, market-related, knowledge economy, external flows and human development. The empirical evidence is based on … development, especially in the contemporary specifications. Fourth, mobile banking is positively linked with: (i) trade in …) internet penetration and human development, with contemporary threshold evidence. The policy implications are articulated with …

development and financial globalisation in the assessment of hypothetical initial financial development conditions for the rewards … that, thresholds for financial development benefits of financial globalisation may also be contingent on initial levels of … financial development. For this purpose, we examine marginal, threshold and net effects of financial globalisation on financial …