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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"World Development Indicators"”.
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Determinants of Sports Performance: Case Studies on Olympics & Major League Soccer
… of medals obtained, and a country's health indicators. We want to examine the relationship that improved sanitation access has on Olympic performance. The data sources are from the Olympic Committee, World Development Indicators and various sources. A panel tobit estimation will be used to …
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Financial Sector Development and Poverty Reduction in Namibia
… proportion of people in the developing world are severely affected by poverty. In 2013 it was estimated that 787 million of the world population lived in severe poverty (World Bank, 2016). Moreover, Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for half of the population who are severely affected by …
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Investigating the causality between economic growth, trade and income inequality in SADC (1985-2020).
… countries from 1985-2020. Data was obtained from World Development Indicators (WDI), Standard World Income Inequality Database (SWIID), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). A multivariate analysis was adopted using Panel Autoregressive Distributive Lags (ARDL) and the Pooled …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… led to Pro-FDI policies becoming a pillar of the development convention in Zambia and the developing and emerging nations at large. Data for the study was obtained from the World Bank’s world development indicators for the period 1980 to 2020, COMESA statistics, Zambia statistic agency, UNCTAD and …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… led to Pro-FDI policies becoming a pillar of the development convention in Zambia and the developing and emerging nations at large. Data for the study was obtained from the World Bank’s world development indicators for the period 1980 to 2020, COMESA statistics, Zambia statistic agency, UNCTAD and …
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Political economy of health in the Southern African Development Community(SADC) region:The effect of political instability on health outcomes and expenditure
… Guide’s Political Risk Services index and the World Bank’s World Development Indicator index. Additionally, further investigation is made into the effect that a country’s level of democracy has on health outcomes and public health expenditure. The empirical estimations involve a panel dataset …
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The nexus between financial inclusion and financial development in Zimbabwe (2009-2015)
… nexus between financial inclusion and financial development in Zimbabwe covering the period from 2009 to 2015. Using descriptive statistics including correlation analysis, t-tests, and graphical analysis, the study revealed that there is a positive relationship between financial inclusion and …
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The health-economic growth nexus: a lower and middle-income Sub-Saharan economies comparison
… from 2000-2016. The study employed data from World Bank Indicators (WDI) in the World Bank database. This study is unique amongst existing studies in two respects. Firstly, it investigates the relationship between health and economic growth by comparing lower-income with middle-income …
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Role of Societal Quality-of-Life in National Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Cross-National Analysis
… Entrepreneurship Research Association (GERA), World Development Indicators (WDI) and Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) of the World Bank, Human Development Reports (HDR) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) of the Institute for Health …
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Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Sahara Africa.
… Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is motivated by the recent rise of inward FDI from both developed and developing countries into SSA, considering the attendant impact of foreign ownership on the performance of domestic firms. The study …
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Relationship between inflation rate and wage rate before and after inflation targeting periods in South Africa
… archival design, with the data sourced from the World Development Indicators (WDI) and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) It employed the linear and the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (LARDL & NARDL) estimation techniques in the analysis to test these objectives. The findings made in …
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Improving corporate governance in Nepalese financial institutions to promote growth and performance
… equitable sharing of growth. The lack of proper development of corporate governance and monitoring of financial systems results in a failure to capitalise on growth opportunities when they arise. A lack of capital is a major inhibitor to development, and enhanced governance will be a major fillip …
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Three essays on financial inclusion in Africa and the Middle East
… huge challenge facing developing regions of the world, including Africa and the Middle East. According to the Global Findex database, Africa and the Middle East remains behind the world in terms of the number of people who have access to financial services. This study therefore examines the …
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Public debt in sub-Saharan African countries: determinants and economic effects
… sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria and World Development Indicators spanning 1970-2017. Empirical analyses are carried out using the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration. The analyses of the determinants of public debt produced results largely in line with …