Measuring how armed conflict impacts economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa through spatial analysis
Frontiers in Political ScienceThis study investigates the spatial effects of armed conflict on Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) economic growth, focusing on Central Africa, East Africa, and West Africa. Utilizing Spatial Durblin Model (SDM), the analysis reveals significant spatial effects
Michael Abimbola Ogbe +2 more
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Does Intellectual Property Lead to Intellectual Property Protection? [PDF]
Researchers studying the differential commitment of countries to intellectual property rights, often appear to run into the claim that countries with a relatively higher and significantly changing technological base (the developed countries) opt for ...
Sunil Kanwar
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Child Malnutrition and Mortality in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Cross-Country Analysis [PDF]
In this paper we propose and test an interpretative framework on the social and economic determinants of child malnutrition and child mortality, two key human development indicators. The paper is organized as follows.
Gabriele, Alberto, Schettino, Francesco
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The Institutional Environment and the Banking - Growth Nexus: Theory and Investigation for MENA [PDF]
This paper seeks to provide some theoretical and empirical answers to the following question: Does the institutional environment affect the causality relationship between banking development and economic growth?
Nabi, Mahmoud Sami +1 more
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How does an entrepreneurial university affect regional economic development?
Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional ResearchThis paper aims to reveal the role of entrepreneurial universities in the regional economic development of Türkiye. By using spatial econometrics tools including cluster maps, namely LISA and Geary, and spatial regression models for NUTS 3 regions (81 ...
Derya Fındık +2 more
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From Cholera Outbreaks to Pandemics: The Role of Poverty and Inequality [PDF]
Cholera and other diarrheal diseases are the second leading cause of death among the poor globally. The tragedy of this statistic is that it need not be the case.
Charles Register +2 more
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How do inequality affect tax morale in Latin America and Caribbean?
Revista de Economía del Rosario, 2013 Latin America is well known as an inequitable region. As it is recognized, inequality and corruption perception weaken the way that political institutions works and the democratic system.
Mariana Gerstenbluth +3 more
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Mass media and public policy: global evidence from agricultural policies. [PDF]
Mass media plays a crucial role in information distribution and thus in the political market and public policy making. Theory predicts that information provided by mass media reflects the media’s incentives to provide news to different types of groups in
Olper, Alessandro, Swinnen, Jo
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Informality trends and cycles [PDF]
This paper studies the trends and cycles of informal employment. It first presents a theoretical model where the size of informal employment is determined by the relative costs and benefits of informality and the distribution of workers'skills.
Loayza, Norman V., Rigolini, Jamele
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Market Access, Openness and Growth [PDF]
This paper identifies a causal effect of openness to international trade on growth. It does so by using tariff barriers of the United States as instruments for the openness of developing countries.
John Romalis
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