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Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …
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convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in 38 African countries, disaggregated into 10 … is that the income component of the human development index moves slower than others in the convergence process and thus …In examining some big questions on African development, we provide evidence that dynamics of some development …
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the beta catch-up and sigma convergence to compare dispersions in output per worker, total factor productivity and ….70% per annum with corresponding time to full catch-up of 25.38 years and 26.01 years respectively. Third, we find sigma-convergence …. Policies to induce external financial flows are not enough for development if absorptive capacity is low. More policy …
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Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …, reflect their findings in light of recent development models, debates and currents in post-2010 literature. We then re … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …
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The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could seriously affect debates in academic and policy making circles. Using the theoretical underpinnings of the celebrated Eubank (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's...
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Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on …
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, business/bank, market-related, knowledge economy, external flows and human development. The empirical evidence is based on … development, especially in the contemporary specifications. Fourth, mobile banking is positively linked with: (i) trade in …) internet penetration and human development, with contemporary threshold evidence. The policy implications are articulated with …
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This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996-2010. An autoregressive...
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Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from recently published papers on development …
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