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Despite a growing literature on the determinants of corruption, existing studies are sparse on the channels through … which social media curbs corruption using panel data. Social media is captured by the percentages of the population and …, judicial and legislative corruption. The use of social media by elites for OPA boosts corruption in the judicial sector …
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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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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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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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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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African countries for the period 1994-2010. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income …-levels, legal-origins, religious-dominations and press-freedom to account for government quality dynamics, of corruption … that democracy has an edge over autocracy while the latter and polity overlap. As a policy implication, democracy once …
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doubtful as to whether the presumption of the overall efficiency of democracy can be sustained in global governance … reference to strengths and weaknesses in environmental objectives. This analysis explores the effect of autocracy, democracy, as …
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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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Recently, many studies have examined the ICT-economic growth relationship and the democracy-economic growth linkage … with conflicting results. However, the study on the moderating effect of internet and mobile usage on the democracy … the impact of internet and mobile usage on the democracy-economic growth relationship in 26African economies over the …
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