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A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s …' postulates that: (i) one unit of currency deposited abroad represents a loss in financial development at home (ii) a fraction of …
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We employ interactive quantile regressions to assess conditional linkages between foreign aid, iron ore exports and terrorism from a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. The following main findings are established. First, it is primarily in the countries with the highest...
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The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the …
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This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on...
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levels of financial market development compared to their counterparts with autocratic inclinations. As a policy implication … quality of public offices that favour stock market development on the African continent. …
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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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development and financial globalisation in the assessment of hypothetical initial financial development conditions for the rewards … that, thresholds for financial development benefits of financial globalisation may also be contingent on initial levels of … financial development. For this purpose, we examine marginal, threshold and net effects of financial globalisation on financial …
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Education as a tool in the fight against corruption has been subject to much debate in academic and policy making circles. This note extends what we know on this nexus in a threefold manner: namely, in terms of: incremental, lifelong learning and synergy effects. Four main findings are...
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Purpose - We investigate if financial development benefits from financial globalisation are questionable until certain … Foreign Direct Investment Inflows as a percentage of GDP (FDIgdp) whereas financial development entails dynamics of depth … globalisation on financial development is negative, there is a positive marginal effect, such that at a certain level of FDIgdp (or …
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This paper models the feasibility of common policy initiatives against global terrorism, as well as timelines for their enforcement. The empirical evidence is based on 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Employed terrorism dynamics are domestic, transnational, unclear and total...
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