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

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 …

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 …

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

mitigation and sustainable development implications. These entail inter alia: the development of technology with value …

Purpose - This study assesses the effect of time-dynamic financial globalisation uncertainty on financial development … estimated as time-dynamic to capture business cycle disturbances while all dimensions identified by the Financial Development … flows may be a disguised advantage for domestic financial development, especially in dealing with the substantially …

four KE components of the World Bank are employed, notably: education, innovation, economic incentives & institutional …

poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of clientelism on … development outcomes is lacking. In this paper we examine the relationship between political clientelism, public goods provision … political clientelism on development outcomes, with increases in clientelism leading to lower coverage of welfare programmes …

'Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent … studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies … focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining 'who leads development'. The current article asks if heroes really …