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This study examines whether knowledge causes economic growth in Africa's two leading economies: Nigeria and South Africa. Using the Vector Autoregressive and Vector Error Correction approach, the findings show cointegration among the variables. The speed of convergence of the variables to their...
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We argue that there exists an indirect link between globalization and the knowledge economy of African countries in … knowledge economy. We model the link as a three-stage process in four testable hypotheses, which permits an empirical analysis … governance both positively and negatively, we also conclude that the prospect for the knowledge economy in African countries may …
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We argue that there exists an indirect link between globalization and the knowledge economy of African countries in … knowledge economy. We model the link as a three-stage process in four testable hypotheses, which permits an empirical analysis … governance both positively and negatively, we also conclude that the prospect for the knowledge economy in African countries may …
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A previous analysis of the impact of formal institutions on the knowledge economy of 22 Middle-Eastern and Sub …, determinants of the knowledge economy. To extend that study, this paper claims that globalization induces peace and stability …, which affects governance and through governance the knowledge economy. The claim addresses one weakness of previous research …
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This paper seeks to gain insights into whether developing countries benefit more from the backwardness advantage for economic growth in the Information Age. The paper examines this concern through three complementary approaches. First, it derives theoretical grounds from the existing economic...
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This study assesses the role of foreign aid in reducing the hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on trade using a panel of 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive GMM estimations with forward orthogonal deviations....
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This study complements existing literature by examining the short-run heterogeneous and long-run homogeneous impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade on ecological footprints in 37 African countries for the period 1990 to 2019. Utilizing the pooled mean group estimator,...
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