This study examines the impact of political risk and corporate governance mechanisms (CGM) on bank stability. The research problem was addressed using a sample 954 bank-year observations from 14 Middle East North Africa (MENA) countries during period 2010–2018 to take into account effect recent uprisings that broke out in MENA region (i.e., Arab Spring events). uses three-Stage Least-Squares (3...

Background Anti-poverty has always been an important issue to be settled. What policies should be selected to help individuals escaping from the poverty trap: by directly offering transfer payments or indirectly providing public services? This paper is among the first to explore the effects of public anti-poverty programs system in China. Methods We Using unbalanced panel data of China Health...

Purpose Going beyond the traditional approach of formal and informal institutions as antecedents entrepreneurship (directly) development (indirectly), this paper seeks to explore knowledge a necessary input for societies. Design/methodology/approach Institutional economics lenses are utilized observe other factors (e.g. number R&D staff researchers from public sector) that involve laws soci...

Abstract Entrepreneurial activity has been seen as the single most important of individuals due to its role in economic development nations. However, little is known about impact entrepreneurial on subjective well-being nations beyond impact. The purpose this study explore different types – total activity, opportunity-driven and innovative across We consider three distinct mechanisms by which e...

By specializing in preventative oral healthcare, dental hygienists (DHs) have the potential to improve oral health in the United States. DHs decrease the cost and increase the availability of oral healthcare beyond what would be provided by dentists alone. Yet laws and regulations in many U.S. states prevent DHs from fulfilling their potential. A prior study by Wing et al. (2005) found that sta...

In accounting for the rather gloomy trend of the aid effectiveness literature over the last few years, one explanatory strand has been fiscal, suggesting in particular that aid flows in weak states have tended to erode the taxbase and the structure of institutions. We pursue this idea, tracing the link from politics to domestic tax effort and then using the influence of this on expenditure to e...