This paper examines the role of institutions and governance in the economic transformation of African economies. The basic proposition is that institutions and governance matter in economic growth and transformation, but poor crafting of institutions and bad governance have truncated the...

Aim/purpose - This study examined the impact of public sector spending and governance on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and further assessed the role of governance in the causal relationship between public sector spending and economic growth in the sub-region....

Few studies have reconciled the multidimensional nature of poverty with the cultural conditioning of population to orient policies. A SEM (Structural Equations Modeling) strategy, through the comparison of nested models, was used to formulate and test four research hypotheses. Results show that...

French Abstract: Cette étude vise, d’une part, à explorer les effets potentiels de la crise économique mondiale de 2008/09 sur la pauvreté des enfants au Cameroun. D’autre part, elle a pour but d’explorer les effets potentiels, sur cette même population-cible, des politiques qui...

French Abstract: L'objectif principal de cette recherche est d’appréhender la multi-pauvreté par les valeurs des dimensions de bien-être plutôt que par les indicateurs composites comme c’est actuellement le cas. La méthode utilisée est la modélisation « Multiple indicateurs multiples...

The primary objective of this study is to capture multi-poverty with values for welfare dimensions rather than the typical approach of a composite welfare indicator. The method used is multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) modelling, which can be used to explain, measure and calculate the...