African countries for the period 1994-2010. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income … that democracy has an edge over autocracy while the latter and polity overlap. As a policy implication, democracy once …

propensity to effect policies that favour the development of financial intermediary depth, activity and size. Democracy has … policies towards financial development. As a policy implication, once democracy is initiated, it should be accelerated (to edge …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A … democracy that takes into account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a …

mitigates the positive relationship between trust institutions and national economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using … Round 7 data of Afrobarometer in over 1000 districts in 34 countries, we find that trust institutions positively and …

positive relationship between trust institutions and national economic performance in Africa. Using Round 7 data of … Afrobarometer in over 1000 districts in 34 countries, we find that trust institutions positively and significantly affect economic …

economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established … effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The geographical and temporal scopes are respectively 25 Sub … Method of Moments. The following main findings are established. First, FDI has a positive effect on GDP growth, GDP per …

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa …. This result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally …

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 …

qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are … qualities of democracy, we find that while the frequency of change has a beneficial impact on the qualities of democracy, the …