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Acemoglu and Johnson (2005), Ali (2013) and Asongu (2014). We assess the effects of various components of governance on private … employed. Principal component analysis is also employed to reduce the dimensions of governance variables. The empirical … governance as a better determinant of private investment than financial intermediary development. Moreover, the evidence of …
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The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence on policy and academic debates. This paper relaxes his hypotheses on the conception, definition and measurement of finance and institutions because they are less realistic to...
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This study examines the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary entrepreneurship. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture. Drawing on the epidemiological origin of...
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correlate of private investment than financial intermediary development. The interaction of finance and governance is not …
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Purpose -This investigates the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary entrepreneurship. Previous studies reveal numerous proximate causes of entrepreneurship, but little is known about the fundamental determinants of this widespread economic concern....
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The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …
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renewable energy development and the mediating effects of governance on that relationship. For this purpose, the Ordinary Least … robust across alternative specifications of natural resources and governance, except for forest resources, which have a …. Second, governance interacts with natural resource rents to generate positive effects across different governance …
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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 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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This study assesses the mobile phone in the diffusion of knowledge for better governance in sub-Saharan Africa for the … quality) and ten governance indicators that are bundled and unbundled. The following are the main findings. First, there is an … unconditional positive effect of mobile phone penetration on good governance. Second, the net effects on political, economic and …
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