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the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … positive effects with increasing magnitude among Best Performers (0.10th to 0.90th quantile) and (2) education spending has …
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This study investigates the effect of foreign aid on education and lifelong learning in 53 African countries for the … period 1996-2010. Three main issues are assessed, notably: (i) the effect of aid on education; (ii) the incremental impact of … aid on education and (iii) the effect of aid on lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is measured as the combined knowledge …
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the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … Hopefuls to Best Performers, while the impact of education is increasingly positive. As a main policy implication, it would … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …
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This study examines the importance of inclusive human development in promoting education quality in a panel of forty … development improves education quality. This result should be understood in the light of the fact that the adopted education … reflects diminishing education quality. From QR, with the exception of the highest quantile, the tendency of inclusive human …
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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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This study examines the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary gender equality. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture. Drawing on the Parasite-Stress Theory, we propose a...
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The paper assesses the interconnections between FDI and human capital development in Nigeria over the period 1981-2018. The analysis is carried out with the use of both non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) and linear ARDL bounds test approach to cointegration, and VECM Granger...
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This paper forwards the view that some aspects of African culture enhance economic development on the continent while other aspects tend to constrain development. By drawing on the extant literature on culture and development, the paper discusses the manner in which economic activities are...
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We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The...
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