Despite empirical literature on the AI-growth nexus, governance/institutional-growth nexus, poverty-AI nexus to the best of our knowledge, no studies have examined how governance quality/dimensions/indicators can distinctively complement the AI-poverty-growth nexus in selected BRICS economy using the no...
The extractive industries play a pivotal role in Nigeria's economy, yet it has been riddled with allegations of corrupt practices involving revenue transfers from operations to the government. To increase transparency and ensure public engagement, the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative ...
Group A countries: Kenya, Nigeria and Bolivia. Group B countries: Ecuador and Peru. Fig. 1 suggests that different institutions registered with OARE at different points in time. This implies that we have multiple cut-offs for before and after OARE depending on the respective institution. Fig. ...
Despite the negative effect appears to have char- acterized the initial years following the introduction of the initiative—which can be at- tributed to a learning curve for Chinese firms to fully understand how to make their investment effectively—the impact of the BRI is shown to be ...
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a “reservoir” for earnings management, so that they can dispose of these assets in the short term (contrary to the initial intention of holding them) if there is a need to avoid a decline in profits. Empirical studies in the existing literature have indeed shown that managers will use ...
Adejuwon JO (2005) Food crop production in Nigeria. I. Present effects of climate variability. Clim Res 30(1):53–60 Article Google Scholar Adger WN, Huq S, Brown K, Conway D, Hulme M (2003) Adaptation to climate change in the developing world. Prog Dev Stud 3(3):179–195 Articl...
According to the WDI [87], child mortality in Chad is 113.8 per 1000 live births and in Nigeria and Somalia, it is 117. Infant mortality in Somalia is 89.5 per 1000 live births [18]. With the dark shadows of the poverty, these African countries suffer from a number of socio-economic ...
For example, low-yielding enterprises (or the so-called “zombie enterprises”) may have free access to adequate financial resources, and this phenomenon is particularly common, especially in the context of the widespread prevalence of corruption in a specific country. The rapid development in ...
(2000) also pointed out that intangible resources play a crucial role in firm valuation, given the transition from a physical assets-based economy to a knowledge-driven economy. Bontis (2001) believes that intangible assets have become the main source of competitive edge, and an adequate measure...