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This research assesses the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in primary education quality in a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS) and Instrumental Quantile regressions...
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The study investigates whether development assistance can be used to crowd-out the negative effect of terrorism on … is primarily in countries with above median levels of international trade that development assistance can be used as an …
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This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996-2010. An autoregressive...
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by answering two critical questions: what are the linkages between the ease of doing business and economic development … ease of doing business and economic development is discussed in six main strands, namely: wealth creation and sharing …; opportunities of employment; balanced regional and economic development; Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and GDP per capita; standards …
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Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from recently published papers on development …
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This study investigates persistence of global terrorism in a panel of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following findings are established. First, persistence in terrorism is a decreasing function of income levels...
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This study explores a new dataset in order to present the comparative determinants of growth quality in 93 developing … comparative readability. We also discuss how specificities in the modelling techniques are relevant for targeting growth quality …. The results are timely and relevant for the post-2015 inclusive and sustainable development agenda. …
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development and financial globalisation in the assessment of hypothetical initial financial development conditions for the rewards … on financial development throughout the conditional distributions of financial development. The empirical evidence is …-2011. Financial globalisation is measured with Net Foreign Direct Investment inflows whereas financial development entails all …
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terrorism on development outcomes. …
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Compared to other regions of the world, Africa is lagging in its drive toward knowledge-based economies. This study surveys the literature in order to highlight the policies and strategies with which African countries can accelerate their current drive towards knowledge economies. These are...
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