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Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...
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The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world. This study uses country-level data to model changes in forest area over an 18 year period (1990-2007) in 35 African countries and investigates the role played by important...
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Motivated by sustainable development challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa, this study assesses the comparative persistence of environmental unsustainability in a sample of 44 countries in the sub-region for the period 2000 to 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. Of...
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across the best and worst corruption-fighting countries especially with respect to democracy, population growth and economic …
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(an) tool(impediment) in(to) the fight against corruption in Low(Middle) income countries. (2) Democracy increases (decreases …
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seriously in comparison to those that are lax on the issue. (4) Findings on democracy broadly indicate the democratization …
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(an) tool (impediment) in (to) the fight against corruption in Low (Middle) income countries. (2) Democracy increases …
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reason nations strive to improve the peaceful coexistence of citizens. This study investigates the effect of democracy … empirical results firstly reveal that democracy increases peace in Africa, particularly in countries where the initial level of …
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This study adds to the body of existing literature on the relationship between democracy and terrorism by investigating … the impact of democracy on terrorism in 26 African countries. The study utilises a robust measure of democracy known as … the varieties of democracy index which has been observed in literature to be more superior to conventional measures of …
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The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa. This … result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally stood …
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