This study examines the impact of globalization on cross-country inequality and poverty using a panel data set for 65 developing counties, over the period 1970-2008. With separate modelling for poverty and inequality, explicit control for financial intermediation, and comparative analysis for...

The importance of financial market reforms in combating corruption has been highlighted in the theoretical literature but has not been systemically tested empirically. In this study we provide a first pass at testing this relationship using both linear and non-monotonic forms of the relationship...

Recent theoretical developments and case study evidence suggests a relationship between the military in politics and corruption. This study contributes to this literature by analyzing theoretically and empirically the role of the military in politics and corruption for the first time. By drawing...

This study conducts a comparative empirical analysis of 132 developed and developing economies to explore the links of ICT with environment over the period 1980-2016. The empirical analysis is based on Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (POLS) and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation...

The objective of this study is to analyze the role of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and financial development in shaping renewable energy consumption employing panel data of 130 economies from 1990 to 2020. The empirical analysis is based on pooled ordinary least squares, fixed effects,...

This paper analyzes the environmental effects of digital financial inclusion (DFI) along with green growth using panel data from 102 economies over the period 1990-2022. The analysis used mobile cellular subscriptions (MCSs), bank branches (BB), and automated teller machines (ATMs) as proxy...