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This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...
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The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa …. This result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally …
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effective civil society participation and the improvement of the quality of democracy. …
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Motivated by the difficulty of ensuring gender equality and the chaotic state of democracy, we analyze the effects of … gender political inclusion and democracy on environmental policy performance. The study uses a panel of 45 African countries … inclusion and democracy positively affect environmental performance in all quantiles. These positive effects tend to be stronger …
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literature, this studyattemmps to fill a gap in the tourism literature by investigating the moderating effect of democracy on the … that tourism and democracy unconditionally worsen income inequality. Moreover, democracy complements tourism to further …
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African countries for the period 1994-2010. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income … that democracy has an edge over autocracy while the latter and polity overlap. As a policy implication, democracy once …
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In the quest for the attainment of democracy with its fully unleashed potentials, the role of information and … democracy indicators. The analysis is carried out by applying the instrumental variables (IV) Tobit regression to the data to … model. The study finds that weak democracy is detrimental to the effect of mobile phone penetration on integrated governance …
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This study adds to the body of existing literature on the relationship between democracy and terrorism by investigating … the impact of democracy on terrorism in 26 African countries. The study utilises a robust measure of democracy known as … the varieties of democracy index which has been observed in literature to be more superior to conventional measures of …
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The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa. This … result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally stood …
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educational outcomes, however, continue to be subpar at all levels. This study examines the impact of democracy on lifelong … learning in 52 African countries from 1990 to 2020, employing Fixed Effects regressions. Six democracy indicators, which … include electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, egalitarian, and total democracy, derived from the principal …
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