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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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-tribal populations generally enjoy bad governance in terms of government ineffectiveness. Government ineffectiveness and tribalism are …
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unbundling of ten governance dynamics. Design/methodology/approach- Contemporary and non-contemporary Fixed- and Random …-Effects regressions are employed as empirical strategies. GDP growth and real GDP output are used as dependent variables. The governance … variables are bundled by means of principal component analysis. Findings- The following are some findings. First, governance is …
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governance determinants using a battery of contemporary and non-contemporary estimation techniques. The following findings are …, they are not for net FDI. Second, for contemporary specifications, the significance of the governance dynamics is as … follows in increasing order of magnitude: general governance, political governance, economic governance, political stability …
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Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions have been covered substantially in recent literature. Despite the wealth of theoretical and empirical studies on this subject, there is no study that has reviewed existing literature in light of concerns over sustainable and equitable management. This...
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This paper is an extension of the debate on the nexus between the strength of IPRs and prospects for knowledge economy. It assesses the relationships between software piracy and scientific publications in African countries for which data is available. The findings which reveal a positive nexus...
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