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Governance and Intelligence: Empirical Analysis from African Data

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2012

This study aims at testing the relation between intelligence and governance. It is based on African data. This study …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015232873

Governance and Intelligence: Empirical Analysis from African Data

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2012

This study aims at testing the relation between intelligence and governance. It is based on African data. This study …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015244501

An Empirical Note on Tribalism and Government Effectiveness

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice - 2015

This study assesses the relationship between tribalism (the tribalism index) and government effectiveness (per the World Bank) in 65 countries using cross-sectional data averages from 2000-2010. This study finds that countries with high-tribal populations generally enjoy bad governance in terms...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015250009

Statistics and IQ in Developing Countries: A Note

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice; Azia-Dimbu, … - 2015

The purpose of this study is to assess the nexus between intelligence (or human capital) and statistical capacity in … statistics in developing countries and (ii) an evolving stream of literature on knowledge economy. We have established a positive … association between intelligence quotient (IQ) and statistical capacity. The relationship is: (i) consistent with the employment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015250019

Tribalism and Government Effectiveness

Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2016

This study assesses the relationship between tribalism (the tribalism index) and government effectiveness (per the World Bank) in 60 countries using cross-sectional data. This study finds that countries with high tribal populations generally enjoy bad governance in terms of government...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015255528

Common Good Institutions, Identity in the Workplace, and Value Dynamics

Athias, Laure - 2024

The theory of social choice stresses that the general interest determined through the aggregation of individual preferences implies interpersonal utility comparisons and hence necessarily a notion of common good beyond individual preferences. The pursuit of the common good falls to all services...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213320

Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2009

In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analysis of mechanisms of governance of agro-ecosystem services. Firstly, we...

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Corruption and regulatory burden

Dzhumashev, Ratbek - 2008

It is known that government has discretionary power in providing public goods and regulating the economy. Corrupt bureaucracy with discretionary power creates and extracts rents by manipulating with the public good supply and regulations: i) by attaching excessive red tape to the public good...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220442

“The Right to the City” An Ecosystemic Approach to Better Cities, Better Life

Pilon, André Francisco / A. F. - 2010

Urbanism is a focus on cities and urban areas, their geography, economies, politics, social characteristics, as well as the effects on, and caused by, the built environment; it is linked to various aspects of quality of life: education, culture, justice, labour, environment, health, safety,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223491

Agro-Ecosystem Services – Governance Needs and Efficiency

Bachev, Hrabrin - 2010

This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of management agro-ecosystem services. That new approach for analyses and assessment of management of agro-ecosystem services includes: definition of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223743