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Moments is employed to assess the feasibility and timing of the revolution. The empirical evidence reveals that from a …
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We model core demands for better governance (political, economic and institutional), more employment and less consumer price inflation using a methodological innovation on the complete elimination of cross-country differences in signals susceptible of sparking social revolts. The empirical...
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dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM … implications are discussed in the light of the post-2015 development agenda. We also provide some recommendations for a rethinking … of theories and models on which development assistance is based. …
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private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based …
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levels of financial market development compared to their counterparts with autocratic inclinations. As a policy implication … quality of public offices that favour stock market development on the African continent. …
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Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …
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This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on...
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This study complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on political rights, aid volatilities and the post-Berlin Wall period. The findings show that while foreign aid does not have a significant effect on political rights, foreign aid volatilities do mitigate...
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The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the … policy debate from growth to ‘quality of growth’ (QG). We explore a new dataset on QG by the IMF and classify 93 developing … the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health …
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