Purpose – Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … analysis, while the economic and social dimensions of globalization are reflected in the HDI, the political dimension is … captured by good governance indicators. A TSLS-IV estimation technique is applied where-in globalization instruments of trade …

This paper examines how regionalization in the face of globalization has affected financial development in the context … of banking system efficiency in Africa. Results which are robust to financial system efficiency and growth …/projects with deposits; (3) increase in welfare has positively affected the intermediary role of banks; (4) globalization tends to …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of trade and financial globalization on human development … variables are exogenous to the endogenous components of explaining variables(globalization dynamic channels) conditional on … alternative globalization indicators; (2) endogeneity based estimation ; and (3) adoption of two interchangeable sets of …

The relationship between globalization and human rights remains highly controversial in African context. Neoliberals … argue that globalization lead to growth and development generating respect for human rights. While skeptics contend that … globalization process always tends to be ‘exclusive of poor’ increasing inequality leading to social unrest and economic insecurity …

This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …

Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …

been counteracting external factors, like the globalization of the aid business, that demanded structural changes in the …

financial sector competition in Africa using updated data to appraise second generation reforms. The ‘freedom to trade’ and …