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components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …
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The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could … (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's findings. Then extend the concept of governance from corruption to … Kangoye. It follows that in the presence of foreign aid uncertainty, governments could be constrained to improve governance …
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This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid … instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African …: total aid, aid from multilateral donors and bilateral aid. Principal Component Analysis is used to bundle governance …
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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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is shifting to how aid instability affects governance in developing countries. We engage the policy debate by assessing … the role of foreign aid instability on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996 …, aid from multilateral donors and bilateral aid. Principal Component Analysis is used to bundle governance indicators …
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The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …
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renewable energy development and the mediating effects of governance on that relationship. For this purpose, the Ordinary Least … renewable energy. First, we find that natural resources enhance renewable energy development in Africa and that the results are … robust across alternative specifications of natural resources and governance, except for forest resources, which have a …
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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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An April 2015 World Bank report on the Millennium Development Goal poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has … asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality increases when the return on capital is … development increases and Africa may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal solution, Piketty has proposed progressive …
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