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size of government tends to increase, predictably in an attempt of redistribution, or to buy out the electorate, so that … some countries, the evidence presented here is rather informative of what to expect in terms of government size during …
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the study is the significant role played by governance in explaining the long-term pattern of domestic investment in … imperative to incorporate the significant role played by governance. …
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The paper examines how much governance matters for long run economic development in poor countries. Answering this … effects, and possible feedback from growth into governance will violate the exogeneity assumptions of many estimators. Bias … interaction between governance and growth shows considerable country-specificity. In the presence of heterogeneity, estimation …
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of institutional quality considered in our study, namely government efficiency, regulatory quality, rule of law …
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compatibility and asymmetric information framework. We characterize the decision-making problem in government and public sector as … analysis on some African Countries and show that the quality of governance influences GDP growth, Employment Creation, and …
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Alan Cobley (1990: 3) has argued that no sustained interest was taken in the subject of class in South Africa until the arrival of a generation of radical historians in the 1970s, and then the focus of concern was largely with the origins and development of a black working class in whose...
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Volunteers are people who supply labour for the production of goods and services, for the benefit of others. Volunteer work is of significance in a time when social safety nets are weak and there are ever increasing demands on welfare organisations. The question is, who are these good...
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The majority of academic research on central bank communication has analysed a central bank’s audience as a single group. Analyses, especially empirical research have focused almost exclusively on a central bank’s interaction with the financial markets, facilitated by the...
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Mankiw and Reis (2002) propose the Sticky Information Phillips Curve as an alternative to the standard New Keynesian Phillips Curve, to address empirical shortcomings in the latter. In this paper, a Sticky Information Phillips curve for South Africa is estimated, which requires data on...
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This study re-investigates the empirical relationship between exports and economic growth in South Africa using econometric techniques of co-integration and Granger causality over the period 1970Q1-2012Q4. The Johansen approach of co-integration shows that exports and GDP evolved together...
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