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The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We systematically review about 180 recently published papers to provide...
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The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We survey about 180 recently published papers to provide recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638882
development was established across all the infrastructure indicators except for the ICT indicator. Negative thresholds for … complementary policies are established for the African Infrastructure Development Index (AIDI) and the transport index while … positive thresholds are apparent for the electricity index and the water and sanitation infrastructure index (WSS). Accordingly …
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This study investigates how governance and infrastructure modulate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … infrastructure threshold of 2.583 indicating that countries with governance and infrastructure level higher than these values tend to … infrastructure), the established thresholds are low and situated between the 5 th and the 10th percentiles. Countries identified …
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This study examines the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary gender equality. Previous studies reveal the persistence of the effects of historical diseases on innovation, through the channel of culture. Drawing on the Parasite-Stress Theory, we propose a...
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In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...
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This special section aims to advance scholarship on well-being and happiness in Africa. The section covers theoretical, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty, happiness and well-being in Africa.
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This study examines the dynamic impact of tourism development on economic growth in subSaharan Africa (SSA) using the Generalised Method of Moments and data covering the period from 2002 to 2018. The increasingly important role of tourism and the limelight the tourism sector has been enjoying of...
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