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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. …
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The study investigates how education, scientific output and the internet complement mobile phone penetration to affect technology commodity exports in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following main findings are...
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Nigeria. This tendency engenders multiplier effects in stimulating sustainable development given that education-driven growth … unemployment rates) in Nigeria. The study employed Autoregressive estimates and an unrestricted VAR approach to analyze these … long run development objectives. Thus, in the nascent quest for sustainable development, this study takes the new growth …
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This study analysed the impact of education human capital development on economic growth in Nigeria from 1980 to 2020 … human capital development, as measured by secondary school enrolment, and economic growth in Nigeria. Therefore, the study … aimed to assess the relationship between education human capital and economic growth in Nigeria. The data, obtained from the …
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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 …
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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. …
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A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s …' postulates that: (i) one unit of currency deposited abroad represents a loss in financial development at home (ii) a fraction of …
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We employ interactive quantile regressions to assess conditional linkages between foreign aid, iron ore exports and terrorism from a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. The following main findings are established. First, it is primarily in the countries with the highest...
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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 …
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This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on...
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