The experience of South Korea, India, China and Singapore reveals that developing economies can fasttrack development, leapfrog the stages of development and catch up with advanced economies by putting knowledge capital as the driver of development. If the knowledge economy is therefore a n...

This paper focuses on the linkage between IFRS adoption and the occurrences of global land deals. Data was gathered for 83 countries and the system GMM technique was applied in the estimations. Among the results from the study includes that IFRS adoption has a positive and significant...

This study examined remittance and bank breadth in Nigeria, using data from the 2011 World Bank Households Survey for the African migration project in Nigeria. The results based logistic regression technique reveal, among other things, that remittance has an inverse relationship with bank...

The experience of South Korea, India, China and Singapore reveals that developing economies can fasttrack development, leapfrog the stages of development and catch up with advanced economies by putting knowledge capital as the driver of development. If the knowledge economy is therefore a n...

This study argues that mobile learning delivers education more affordably, accessibly and effectively than the traditional model of delivering education, which further deprives the poor in Africa. The traditional model of education denoted in this study refers to the model of education that...

Given the role that innovation plays as an engine for economic development, we examined the enabling factor of institutions in Africa. Particularly, attention was given to determining the equivalent effects of institutional development on innovation. A sample of 40 African countries over the...

This paper examines the roles that access to ICT and improved social infrastructure play on the performance levels of informal micro and small business enterprises in Nigerian. For formal sector organisations, studies have been conducted to verify this, but not much is known with respect to...