Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been …

This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty, contingent on the macroeconomic environment within the remit … regression. The results reveal that while poverty has a positive effect on the spread of bribery, inflation can mitigate the … words, the attendant results indicate that the impact of poverty on bribery becomes negative when inflation increases. The …

This study provides thresholds of inequality that should not be exceeded if gender inclusive education is to enhance … and inequality is unfavourable to gender economic inclusion. Second, a Gini coefficient that nullifies the positive … associated with lower levels of education are not significant. As the main policy implication, income inequality should not be …

This study examines whether knowledge causes economic growth in Africa's two leading economies: Nigeria and South … for Nigeria. In the short run, it is observed that knowledge unidirectionally Granger causes growth for Nigeria, whereas … bidirectional causality is observed for South Africa. The higher correlation between knowledge and growth in South Africa reflects …

This study examines if enhancing ICT reduces inequality in 48 countries in Africa for the period 2004-2014. Three … inequality indictors are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index and Palma ratio. The adopted ICT indicators include …

The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent … developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of … documented positive trust-growth nexus is broadly confirmed. Second, when initial levels of growth come into play in determining …

This study articulates the interaction between institutional governance, education and economic growth. Given the … analyze the main mechanisms by which the macroeconomic impact of education on growth (and economic development) occurs. Our … growth. The first channel highlights direct positive effect of educational quality on the incentive to accumulate human …

Inequality and gender economic exclusion are major policy concerns facing sub-Saharan Africa in the post-2015 … development agenda. The study provides critical masses of inequality that should not be exceeded if governance is to promote …. First, inequality (i.e. the Gini coefficient) levels that completely nullify the positive effect of governance on female …