Does democracy promote economic growth? There is still an ongoing debate over the economic implications of democracy …, and this question has gained critical importance particularly in the African context, where a wave of democratization in …

Many studies have considered how democratization affects economic growth. We expand this work by allowing short and … long run effects of democracy upon growth to differ since effects during political transitions need not coincide with those … under established democracies. We also allow these short and long run effects to differ across world regions since the …

This study looked at Human Capital Investment and Economic Growth in Nigeria – the Role of Education. Even though there … government expenditure on education and economic growth while a negative relationship exists between government expenditure on … just the amount of expenditure made on the education and health sectors, but also the percentage of its total expenditure …

This study looked at Human Capital Investment and Economic Growth in Nigeria – the Role of Education. Even though there … government expenditure on education and economic growth while a negative relationship exists between government expenditure on … just the amount of expenditure made on the education and health sectors, but also the percentage of its total expenditure …

a tumultuous half-century in which the region went from backwater to breadbasket, from dictatorship to democracy, and …

political link between income inequality and growth. In this paper, we explain this contrast and argue that in a democracy, when … redistribution is in the form of government expenditure on education, and government expenditure does not crowd out private …