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capital flight trap in Africa, before examin ing what thresholds of government quality are required to fight the capital …
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The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions and measurement of property rights institutions. We assess the relationships between various components of property rights institutions and private investment, notably: political, economic and institutional governances. Comparative...
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Motivated by evidence that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa …
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In this study, we examine the role of information and communication technology in complementing information sharing bureaus (or private credit bureaus and public credit registries) for financial sector competition. Hitherto unexplored dimensions of financial sector competition are employed,...
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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 instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996-2010. An autoregressive...
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Motivated by evidence that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa …
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through governance channels are sparse, especially for a region such as sub-Saharan Africa where insurance penetration is low …
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four economic and monetary regions in Africa for the period 1980 to 2008. Banking system and financial system efficiency …
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Purpose - In this study, we test the so-called ‘Quiet Life Hypothesis' (QLH) which postulates that banks with market power are less efficient.Design/methodology/approach - We employ instrumental variable Ordinary Least Squares, Fixed Effects, Tobit and Logistic regressions. The empirical...
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