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The need for gender inclusion was highlighted as the fifth sustainable development goal (SDG) (i.e. SDG5) and policies have been gearing towards attaining this objective and its subsequent effect on macroeconomic outcome. Equally, the demonstrated trend of infrastructures in Africa in terms of...
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order to reduce poverty and promote employment through commodity-based industrialization. How does infrastructure … state of infrastructure development in Africa stimulates structural change, understood as the development of the … manufacturing sector. After outlining the state of infrastructure quality in the region, and discussing some theoretical channels …
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The objective of this study is to evaluate: (i) the effects of infrastructures on CO2 emission and (ii) how trade openness and governance contribute to mitigating these effects. The results from the system GMM methodology for 36 African countries between the 2003-2019 period show that...
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Purpose - Given the ever-growing fiscal commitments of Nigeria and her chequered history of electricity generation and distribution, the fortunes of the energy sector in the country have been affected by the prevalence of energy poverty. Government policies such as public capital expenditure...
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Investment in ICT infrastructure development is crucial to international trade through its provision of reliable …-seeking behaviours of ICT infrastructure providers and reduces operational costs, among others. However, ICT infrastructural provision in … infrastructure-export nexus, this study empirically examines the relationship between manufacturing export and ICT infrastructure and …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … infrastructure threshold of 2.583 indicating that countries with governance and infrastructure level higher than these values tend to … infrastructure), the established thresholds are low and situated between the 5 th and the 10th percentiles. Countries identified …
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Examining the value-added link between infrastructure and industrialization is fundamental to achieving Sustainable … Development Goal (SDG) 9, which consists of building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable … infrastructure and the specific transmission channel considered. For instance, the indirect effect through the interaction of …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure moderate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … governance threshold of -1.210 and an infrastructure threshold of 2.583, indicating that countries with governance and … infrastructure levels higher than these values tend to benefit much more from the wealth of natural resources. With high levels of …
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The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...
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Given that challenges facing sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries on the issue of socioeconomic development have been identified as critical to strengthening the inherent link between governance and socioeconomic conditions, this study examines the interconnections between governance and SSA...
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