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This study was motivated by the quest to investigate how the interaction between corruption and institutional quality … affects Nigeria's economic performance by testing the validity of the "sand the wheels" and "grease the wheels" corruption … Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to determine the interactive effects of corruption and institutional quality on …
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We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of … foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional … on corruption is most significant in: Middle-income, French civil-law, Christian-dominated, non-oil exporting and …
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This study was aimed at examining the linkages between corruption, environmental sustainability, and economic … study investigated the interconnections between corruption, environmental sustainability and economic performance in Nigeria … that corruption has negative and statistically significant effects on environmental quality and Nigeria's economic …
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environmental degradation in Africa. The study was motivated by the quest to reexamine the validity of the environmental Kuznets …
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relationship according to which democracy is a determinant of economic development? Or is it, conversely, economic development that …-being. -- democracy ; development ; Lipset hypothesis ; causal effect ; growth ; political institutions …
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dispensation is young, comprehensive empirical works to this effect in the case of Africa are hard to find. This study, therefore … Africa. Second, the study investigates the joint effect of economic development and elections on debt servicing in Africa … periods are associated with lower debt servicing in Africa, and (2) economic development is significant in enhancing debt …
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In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
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The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...
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This paper develops an empirically-relevant framework (a) to examine whether or not the African business environment hinders or promotes the knowledge economy (KE), (b) to determine how the KE which emerges from such an environment affects economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to...
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