Innovation is at the basis of economic development and as such, it is instrumental for developing countries. We review …

Innovation is at the basis of economic development and as such, it is instrumental for developing countries. We review …

The aim of this paper is to trace, comparatively, the path of both development and democracy among Former Soviet … refers to “contestation” as the essential feature of democracy. Development is identified with the general progress of human … beings (Ray, 1998), which can be better captured by the Human Development Index, and which does not include income …

We argue that the partition of ethnic groups following the Scramble for Africa does not itself matter for development … a ect development. Furthermore, the analysis of data from the Afrobarometer shows that the persistence of informal … partitioned group a ects development …

This paper investigates the link between development, economic growth, and the economic losses from natural disasters … development and slower than income at high levels of development. In that case, increasing risk-taking reinforces economic growth …-taking is both a driver and a consequence of economic development, and should not be indiscriminately suppressed. The …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …

This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious … propensity to effect policies that favour the development of financial intermediary depth, activity and size. Democracy has … policies towards financial development. As a policy implication, once democracy is initiated, it should be accelerated (to edge …

development has taken place in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach - In framing the financial dimension in a more … financial development benefits of financial globalization. The estimation approach consists of assessing the impact of financial … globalization through-out the conditional distributions of domestic financial development dynamics. Findings - The introduction of …

updated data (1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption …

development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions … technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and development assistance differs … throughout the distributions of development dynamics. Findings - Three main findings are established. (1) With slight exceptions …