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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 instability on governance dynamics in fifty three African …: total aid, aid from multilateral donors and bilateral aid. Principal Component Analysis is used to bundle governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871458
Purpose – This paper investigates the effect of foreign aid on governance in order to extend the debates on foreign aid … (corruption-control and rule of law) governance, but has an insignificant effect on political (political stability, voice and … accountability) governance. While, these findings are broadly in accordance with Moyo (2009) and Collier (2007) on weak governance …
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Purpose - The purposes of this paper are to review the streams of studies that link financial inclusion to small enterprise growth in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), to identify the research gaps they provide, and to prepare an agenda for future research in the field. Design/methodology/approach - The...
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mobile technology penetration on governance quality from the unconditional and marginal effects of mobile phones and diverse … model. The study finds that weak democracy is detrimental to the effect of mobile phone penetration on integrated governance … governance. …
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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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identified as critical to strengthening the inherent link between governance and socioeconomic conditions, this study examines … the interconnections between governance and SSA socioeconomic conditions. With a focus on 25 countries between 2005 and ….Results show that SSA seems not to have the means of effective governance to spur improved socioeconomic conditions. Findings …
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In this study, nexuses between governance and natural resource rents are assessed in 44 sub-Saharan African countries … governance (entailing “voice & accountability†and political stability) and institutional governance (consisting of the rule … attendant governance variables are understood within the framework that such variables are negatively skewed, it becomes …
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In this paper, we revisit the relationship between governance and human development in Africa during the period 2010 … development and governance quality. Our empirical findings support that in Africa, "good fences make good neighbours" or proximity …
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sample of 50 African countries over the period 1996 to 2018. We also examine the extent to which governance shapes the … as forest rent). We also find that governance mitigates the positive effect of natural resources on child mortality …. Corresponding governance policy thresholds that should be attained in order to reverse the positive effects of natural resources on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509252
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 …: total aid, aid from multilateral donors and bilateral aid. Principal Component Analysis is used to bundle governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998497