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. …

development increases and Africa may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal solution, Piketty has proposed progressive …An April 2015 World Bank report on the Millennium Development Goal poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has … been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa. This study extends the implications of Thomas …

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 …, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …

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 …

This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate …

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 …

Purpose - We investigate if financial development benefits from financial globalisation are questionable until certain … Foreign Direct Investment Inflows as a percentage of GDP (FDIgdp) whereas financial development entails dynamics of depth … globalisation on financial development is negative, there is a positive marginal effect, such that at a certain level of FDIgdp (or …