This paper examines how regionalization in the face of globalization has affected financial development in the context … of banking system efficiency in Africa. Results which are robust to financial system efficiency and growth …/projects with deposits; (3) increase in welfare has positively affected the intermediary role of banks; (4) globalization tends to …

Purpose - Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … standpoints. In the analysis, while the economic and social dimensions of globalization are reflected in the HDI, the political … dimension is captured by good governance indicators. A TSLS-IV estimation technique is applied where-in globalization …

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of trade and financial globalization on human development … variables are exogenous to the endogenous components of explaining variables (globalization dynamic channels) conditional on … alternative globalization indicators; (2) endogeneity based estimation; (3) adoption of two interchangeable sets of instruments …

Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …

The study assesses the role of globalization-fuelled regionalization policies on financial allocation efficiency in … four economic and monetary regions in Africa for the period 1980 to 2008. Banking system and financial system efficiencies … are used as dependent variables whereas seven bundled and unbundled globalization variables are employed as independent …