Sub-Saharan Africa has been characterised by low-income levels for decades. This paper analyses the impact of economic globalisation and democracy on income in sub-Saharan Africa using panel cointegration techniques. The paper considers a composite indicator for economic globalisation and...

Economic theory predicts a growth enhancing activities of various core functions of government. Nonetheless, government spending in non-democratic countries often goes beyond these core functions, namely into rent-seeking and non-productive activities. This paper employs the Autoregressive...

Sub-Saharan Africa has been characterised by low-income levels for decades. This paper analyses the impact of economic globalisation and democracy on income in sub-Saharan Africa using panel cointegration techniques. The paper considers a composite indicator for economic globalisation and...