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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the policy debate from growth to 'quality of growth' (QG). The April 2015 World Bank publication on MDGs extreme poverty targets has revealed that poverty has been decreasing in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408491
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Poverty and development in Tanzania
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Katera, Lucas; Mwombela, Stephen; … - 2018
The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in Tanzania which is measured on the basis of whether and how often respondents go, in the course of one year, without food, water, medical care, cooking fuel and cash income. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817286
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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : a note on evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the policy debate from growth to 'quality of growth' (QG). We explore a new dataset on QG by the IMF and classify 93 developing countries for the period 1990-2011 in terms of Hopefuls,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523138
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Comparative determinants of quality of growth in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - 2017
This study explores a new dataset in order to present the comparative determinants of growth quality in 93 developing countries for the period 1990-2011. We employ both cross-sectional and panel estimation techniques with contemporary and non-contemporary specifications. The determinants are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638886
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Poverty and Development in Tanzania
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Katera, Lucas; Mwombela, Stephen; … - 2018
The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in Tanzania which is measured on the basis of whether and how often respondents go, in the course of one year, without food, water, medical care, cooking fuel and cash income. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111780
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Cooperation, Trust, and Economic Development: An Experimental Study in China
Shen, Junyi; Qin, Xiangdong - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2013
Many previous empirical studies have suggested that cooperation and trust affect economic growth. However, the precise relationship between trust and cooperation (i.e., whether trust leads to cooperation or cooperation leads to trust) remains unclear and it is not known how the level of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822745
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Public service delivery : role of information and communication technology in improving governance and development impact
Bhatnagar, Subhash C. - 2014
The focus of this paper is on improving governance through the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the delivery of services to the poor, i.e., improving efficiency, accountability, and transparency, and reducing bribery. A number of papers recognize the potential benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336933
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Knowledge-Based Economic Development : Mass Media and the Weightless Economy
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - 2008
corruption. This result holds across both the entire sample (of both developed and developing countries), and only for developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772149
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Corruption and Development - Why Does Corruption Still Affect Growth?
Delabarre, Maxime - 2021
This paper investigates the relationship between corruption and development. By a study of the determinants of the … phenomenon as well as its implications on growth, this paper address the corruption challenge faced by governments and … not entirely clear, it is however without debate to say that development is necessarily linked with anti-corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241159
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Bribing to escape poverty in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Diop, Samba - 2022
This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty, contingent on the macroeconomic environment within the remit of inflation in Africa. The Afrobarometer survey is used. Our data cover 38 countries consisting of three rounds of survey and a sample of 151,345 individuals. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461774