Purpose: This study aims to assess the effect of globalisation on governance in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Design/methodology/approach: Ten bundled and unbundled governance indicators and four globalisation variables are used. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised...

Purpose – This paper aims to assess how entrepreneurship affects knowledge economy (KE) in Africa. Design/methodology/approach – Entrepreneurship is measured by indicators of starting, doing and ending business. The four dimensions of the World Bank’s index of KE are used. Instrumental...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) and remittances affect the doing of business. Design/methodology/approach: The focus is on a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries for the period 2000–2012. The...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the impact of a growth enhancement support scheme (GESS) on youth development in informal farm entrepreneurship in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of the GESS on rural youths’ adoption of new technologies...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of information asymmetry (between the realized return and the expected return) on market timing in the mutual fund industry. Design/methodology/approach: For the purpose, the authors use a panel of 1,488 active open-end mutual...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the importance of credit access in modulating governance for gender-inclusive education in 42 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with data spanning the period 2004–2014. Design/methodology/approach: The generalized method of moments is used as...