This paper assesses the impact of ICT adoption on democracy for a panel of 70 countries over the period 2000-2017. We consider two different measures of ICT and check for the stability of the relationship for different ...

This paper uses a gravity trade model to examine the effect of corruption on bilateral trade for a sample of 37 countries representing two regions: the Middle East and North Africa and the European Union during the period ...

This study assess the impact of ICT diffusion on corruption by using instrumental variables method on a panel data set of 175 countries over the period 1996-2014. We check for the stability of the ICT-corruption nexus for ...

This paper assesses the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the industrialization of African economies. In particular, we address the nonlinearity issue and investigate the role of the recipient countries' absorptive ...

This study assesses the impact that credit bureaus can have on the occurrence of banking crises, using data for 32 countries over the period 2004-2016 while considering the interference effect of corruption. Different ...

Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders ...

Inflation and its dynamics have been always capturing the attention of economic scholars and policymakers worldwide. Numerous theories in economic literature tried to define the concept of inflation by suggesting different ...

The financial sector's role in economic growth is heavily contested by economists. Some argue that economic growth is not caused by finance, but that it responds to changing demands, while others argue the positive effect ...

In the past decades, international remittance inflows have significantly increased in developing nations. Their importance is being acknowledged due to their scale and growth, which makes them stand out on an aggregate and ...

The relationship between natural resource wealth and economic growth has been extensively studied. As opposed to basic intuition, the results of several empirical studies suggest that vast natural capital endowments don’t ...