This study investigates the relevance of government quality in moderating the incidence of environmental degradation on inclusive human development in 44 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. Environmental ...
This study investigates how increasing economic development affects the green economy in terms of CO2 emissions, using data from 44 countries in the SSA for the period 2000-2012. The Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) is ...
This research assesses the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in primary education quality in a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based ...
This research examines the relevance of inclusive development in modulating the role of
governance on environmental degradation. The study focuses on forty-four countries in sub-
Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. ...
The aim of this paper is to examine whether official development assistance (ODA) or foreign aid has made developing countries worse off as alleged by aid critics such as Moyo (2009), Easterly (2003, 2006, 2008) and Deaton ...
This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty and economic growth in 82 developing countries for the period 1981–2013. Taking advantage of the recently developed dynamic panel data estimation ...
This study examines if enhancing ICT reduces inequality in 48 countries in Africa for the period
2004-2014. Three inequality indictors are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index
and Palma ratio. The adopted ...
There is a growing body of evidence that interest rate spreads in Africa are higher for big banks compared to small banks. One concern is that big banks might be using their market power to charge higher lending rates as ...
The study examines the relationship between tourism and social media from a cross section of 138 countries with data for the year 2012.The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile ...
This study assesses linkages between social media and governance dynamics in 49 African
countries for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on ordinary least squares and
quantile regressions. Ten bundled and ...
This study assesses the relevance of basic formal education in information technology for
inclusive human development in 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012.
The question it aims to answer is the ...
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The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into a country can benefit both the investing entity and host government. This study employed panel analysis to examine the factors that determine the ...
In this paper, we examine the dynamic causal relationship between financial development and
economic growth in French- and English-speaking African countries during the period 1990-
2014 – using a trivariate panel ...
This study empirically investigates the key macroeconomic determinants of economic growth in three Southern African Development Community countries, namely: Malawi, Zambia, and South Africa, using annual data for the period ...
This study empirically examines the dynamic causal relationship between government size and economic growth in Kenya during the 1970-2017 period, using the error-correction based autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing ...
In this paper, we review the existing literature on the relationship between financial liberalization and economic growth, highlighting both the theoretical framework and empirical evidence. Our review is different from ...
This study examines how doing business affects inclusive human development in 48 sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012.The measurement of inclusive human development encompasses both absolute pro-poor and relative ...
The mad rush for rapid economic growth led by industrialization in emerging economies is having a negative impact on ecological management. Rapid economic growth and expansion of economic activities in most developed ...
The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on the relationship between coal consumption and economic growth, highlighting both the theoretical framework and the empirical evidence. The direction of ...
The study investigates the determinants of aggregate and disaggregated import demand for Tanzania, over the period 1985 to 2015. The study employed the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. The ...