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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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The need for gender inclusion was highlighted as the fifth sustainable development goal (SDG) (i.e. SDG5) and policies have been gearing towards attaining this objective and its subsequent effect on macroeconomic outcome. Equally, the demonstrated trend of infrastructures in Africa in terms of...
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order to reduce poverty and promote employment through commodity-based industrialization. How does infrastructure … state of infrastructure development in Africa stimulates structural change, understood as the development of the … manufacturing sector. After outlining the state of infrastructure quality in the region, and discussing some theoretical channels …
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The objective of this study is to evaluate: (i) the effects of infrastructures on CO2 emission and (ii) how trade openness and governance contribute to mitigating these effects. The results from the system GMM methodology for 36 African countries between the 2003-2019 period show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650698
order to reduce poverty and promote employment through commodity-based industrialization. How does infrastructure … state of infrastructure development in Africa stimulates structural change, understood as the development of the … manufacturing sector. After outlining the state of infrastructure quality in the region, and discussing some theoretical channels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223229
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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infrastructure before critically examining the situation of Africa in the light of pressing COVID-19 healthcare infrastructural needs …
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The objective of this study is to evaluate: (i) the effects of infrastructures on CO2 emission and (ii) how trade openness and governance contribute to mitigating these effects. The results from the system GMM methodology for 36 African countries between the 2003-2019 period show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294512
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278350
This study examines the impact of remittances and information and communication technology (ICT) on pension at the country level. Our empirical evidence, based on data from 96 countries, indicate a significant non-linearity between remittances, ICT and pension income coverage. First, we find a...
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