relevant threshold levels required for the various governance dynamics to cause Chinese FDI to equalise incomes in Africa. Our … propelling Chinese FDI towards the equalisation of incomes across the continent, governance mechanisms for ensuring political … stability, low corruption, and voice and accountability are keys. Finally, critical masses required for these three key …

FDI and various governance indicators (rule of law, control of corruption, regulatory quality, governance effectiveness … various governance dynamics on inclusive growth in SSA. We do this by testing two hypotheses first, whether unconditionally …, political stability, and voice and accountability) foster inclusive growth in SSA; and second, whether these governance dynamics …

Recent years have seen the emergence of a considerable volume of literature on governance and its role in economic and … number of serious conceptual, measurement, and data issues as well as the existence of an Asian governance paradox - i.e., a … general disjunction between growth and governance in most Asian economies. This paradox seems to suggest that much of the …

Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries … either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian … of political institutions in mediating the corruption-growth relationship using panel data over one hundred countries for …

social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …

The decrease in the rule of law and in control of corruption in several EU countries is a threat to the cohesion in the … possibility of individuals to appeal to European courts to counter negative developments in governance in EU Member States. …

competitiveness, labour market and education and institutional governance. When comparing EU CC/PCC among themselves, large intra … the quality of their institutions and economic governance over the past decade, it is crucial that they preserve the …

' fragile governance quality. Nonetheless, the optimism, which we provide by way of threshold analysis shows that channelling … resources into the development of these governance dynamics yield positive net effects from the short-term through to the long … structures for fighting corruption while addressing fragilities in regulatory quality and government effectiveness are …