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1 – 10 of 30This followed claims from Ukrainian military intelligence that it had aided northern rebels in a July 27 ambush in the remote north-eastern locality of Tinzaouatene, which may…
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu was given a second one-year term as ECOWAS’s rotating chairperson. Among the topics discussed were relations with the three juntas of the newly…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB288370
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Meanwhile, the location of the fighting along the Algerian border has escalated diplomatic tensions between Bamako and Algiers. The rebels have also exploited their victory to…
WEST AFRICA: Blocs may find little room for compromise
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES288165
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This relates to its empowerment of criminal organisations and armed groups, state capture by traffickers and onward flows of drugs to Europe. The broader impact of the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB288568
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Afnan Alkhaldi, Sawsan Malik and Miltiadis D. Lytras
Digital transformation is becoming a necessity for all organizations all over the world. The importance of digital transformation is not only applicable to the private sector but…
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Digital transformation is becoming a necessity for all organizations all over the world. The importance of digital transformation is not only applicable to the private sector but also extends to the public sector. Kuwait boasts the Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority (KDIPA), a pivotal entity entrusted with the mission of spearheading investment promotion across diverse sectors. More importantly, the focus has been recently on investing in digital transformation technologies where their statistics show that 33% of their investment are in emerging technologies. However, the success of KDIPA was not a mere chance or coincidence where it is really attributed to the transformative leadership that it has. It started to invest in projects that develop the talents and skills of Kuwaitis to create sustainable development and bring innovative technologies to the state of Kuwait. This chapter provides an overview of digital transformation and the role of KDIPA and its transformative leadership in attaining the strategic development goals for a new Kuwait Vision of 2035.
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A popular convention in the political-economy literature is that causality runs from democracy to economic growth. That thinking has continued to evoke significant debates among…
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Purpose
A popular convention in the political-economy literature is that causality runs from democracy to economic growth. That thinking has continued to evoke significant debates among scholars. This study aims to propose a new research experiment by investigating whether macroeconomic variables cause democratisation.
Design/methodology/approach
The study uses a panel data set of 48 carefully selected economies in Sub-Saharan Africa spanning 1991 to 2020 and uses the PVAR system generalised method of moment (GMM) approach.
Findings
With the application of three macroeconomic indicators: economic growth, full employment and balance of payment equilibrium, the study suggests that economic growth has a negative implication on the democratisation process and that the incentives that increase national income provide in the global South enable autocratic rulers to impede democratic growth. The Granger causality test demonstrates a unidirectional effect from economic growth to democracy. The eigenvalue stability condition, impulse response function and forecast-error variance decomposition all confirmed the validity of the findings with the PVAR system GMM. Finally, the study proposed policy and theoretical implications for the political stakeholders.
Social implications
Robust development of economic institutions (particularly the anti-corruption and rule of law) in the global South is required to tame the potential for the state actors to turn public resources into personal use to further their parochial political interest in the form of perpetuating themselves in office which negates the ideals of democracy and social norms. Strong institutions could prevent the misuse of national income and enhance a good quality of life for the citizenry, making them grow confidence in the democratisation process.
Originality/value
The research paper makes an insightful contributions from the methodological perspective and the sampling perspective. The author uses a new research method, the PVAR system GMM becoming the first attempt of such a method to be applied in determining the causal effects of macroeconomic variables on democracy in the literature. Another relevant contribution of the study relates to the sample technique of selecting economies from the Sub-Saharan Africa with notable weak or slow democratisation process.
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MALI: Bamako attack may expose security weaknesses
NIGERIA: North-east humanitarian crisis may worsen
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES289590
ISSN: 2633-304X
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WEST AFRICA: Poverty will impair junta coordination