centuries. This unprecedented global growth coincided with the global proliferation of democracy, with some evidence for …Economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, following the Industrial Revolutions, was much faster than in preceding … bidirectional causation. Macroeconomic forecasts have predicted slower economic growth in the 21st century--perhaps substantially …

features that seem to determine development depends on the workings of political institutions, which define how the …

change and slow economic growth increase the likelihood of urban protests, as expected. However, several unexpected results …

In recent years, there has been a plethora of econometric literature on the determinants of growth. However, the lack … results, reach some conclusions about political and economic institutions that favour development and the political problems …

diversity and economic development depend substantially on coding errors and sample selection. We correct the coding errors and … hypothesis that variation in genetic diversity among subpopulations has a systematic relationship with economic development. …

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get …. Unfortunately, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor … shows that the best policy responses vary across African countries (depending on their levels of development, endowments …

propensity to effect policies that favour the development of financial intermediary depth, activity and size. Democracy has … policies towards financial development. As a policy implication, once democracy is initiated, it should be accelerated (to edge …This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A … democracy that takes into account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a …