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This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to …
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The study examines the role of governance in modulating the effect of capital flight on industrialisation in Africa …
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In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using the Round 7 Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and...
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In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability Index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using Round 7 of the Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473199
composite governance indicator has a negative effect on CO2 emissions. Moreover, urbanization, economic growth, trade and …
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Africa's overall knowledge index fell between 2000 and 2009. South Korea's economic miracle is largely due to a … knowledge economies. Using updated data (1996-2010), this paper presents fresh South Korean lessons to Africa by assessing the … syndromes and compelling catch-up strategies are discussed. Issues standing on the way to KE in Africa are dissected with great …
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In this study, we assess the relevance of decreasing information asymmetry on life and nonlife insurance consumption, by using data from 48 African countries during the period 2004-2014. Reduced information asymmetry is proxied by information sharing offices, namely: public credit registries and...
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role of urbanization, coal consumption and CO2 emissions as additional variables to avoid omitted variable bias. The … test indicates a non-causal effect between FDI inflow and economic expansion in South Africa, which implies that FDI is not … a driver of economic advancement. The empirical study shows a bidirectional causal effect between urbanization and …
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This study empirically examines the effect of sustainable urbanization on vulnerability to climate change over a sample … that sustainable urbanization reduces vulnerability to climate change. The results of the indirect analysis also show that … sustainable urbanization significantly reduces vulnerability to climate change through the channels of digitalization and …
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severe threat to environmental sustainability in Africa. Hence, we examine the role of regulatory quality on environmental … crosssectional dependence in Africa; as a result, we employ the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) method and Common Correlated Effect Mean … mediate pollution in Africa via urbanisation and energy consumption channels, and (iv) The interaction of regulatory quality …
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