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Assessing Inequality and Its Translation on Economic Growth and Human Development in West Africa
Journal of Asian and African Studies. 2025. Vol. 60. No. 6. P. 3859–3878.
Alisa Shishkina, Cyril Gbeti
Sub-Saharan Africa in general and West Africa in particular are ranked as one of the most unequal regions of the world. This study aims at investigating the direct effect of inequality on economic growth and human development (HD). To assess this effect, we use three variables and rigorous estimation techniques. The indirect effect of inequality on the economic growth–HD nexus in West Africa is analyzed with a view to identifying ways of realigning the policies to bring down inequality in West African economies. For this, we compare different standpoints on how inequality affects this nexus. Then, we run fixed effect panel regression and random effect panel regression on various models to test the hypotheses. We find that the positive impact of inequality on HD and economic growth in the most developed economies of the region results from deliberate policies coupled with strong economic and socio-political foundation.
Research target:
Social Sciences
Political Science, International Relations, and Public Administration
Language:
English
Borushkina S., Gorodnichev A., Cities 2026 Vol. 179 No. 12 Article 107500
Agglomeration policy has long been a dominant paradigm in spatial development, premised on the assumption that large, integrated city-regions drive national economic growth through productivity, innovation, and global integration. This paper examines how this paradigm is reworked under conditions of polycrisis, a durable state in which economic, geopolitical, and institutional shocks interact and reinforce one ...
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Киреева А. А., Добринская О. А., Chizhevskaya M. et al., Японские исследования 2026 № 2 С. 157–181
The Middle East (ME) region is vitally important to Japan, as it accounts for
90% of Japan's oil imports. For many years, Japan has sought to build friendly relations
with all countries in the region, often having to balance its own interests with its strategic
alignment with the United States, its only military and political ally. The seminar ...
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Chizhevskaya M., Russian Japanology Review 2026 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 101–130
The article examines Japan's policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. A core dilemma in Japan's approach lies in balancing its loyalty to Arab nations, crucial for securing energy supplies and avoiding a repeat of the 1973 "oil shock", with its alignment to the ...
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Biryuk D., SSRN Electronic Journal 2025
The relevance of the development of youth entrepreneurship in Russia is due to the important role of this type of entrepreneurship in solving socio-economic problems: reducing unemployment by creating new jobs, training qualified personnel, paying taxes, developing the economy in the area of activity, etc. It should also be borne in mind that federal legislation ...
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Biryuk D., SSRN Electronic Journal 2023
The article examines the problems of digital transformation of public administration in the field of science and higher education, its regulatory aspects, and suggests new approaches to management for the effective implementation of the goals of digital transformation of public administration. Using the example of educational institutions of higher education, in particular Tomsk Polytechnic University, ...
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Biryuk D., SSRN Electronic Journal 2023
Globalization, the process of global integration and unification in all spheres of our life is still significant among the tendencies of the modern world. Thus, the process of globalization leads to an increase in international communication, including the field of higher education. A lot of international organizations such as the European University Association (EUA), UNESCO, ...
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Biryuk D., SSRN Electronic Journal 2022
This article describes the application of modern digital technologies in thefield of education and means of intercultural communication in the modernmulti-cultural conditions of the educational environment in universities. The significance and effectiveness of new technologies in the educational processis noted on the example of the National research Tomsk Polytechnic University. The prospects of using new ...
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Grishina D., Soloviev A., Международная аналитика 2026 Т. 17 № 2 С. 10–29
This publication analyzes the historical and geopolitical context of the formation and development of the concept of the “Russian threat” – a public narrative about the territorial ambitions of the Russian Empire that became widespread in Northeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the example of the concept’s origins and transformation in Korea (first in the Joseon Dynasty, later in the Republic of Korea), the authors demonstrate ...
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Strelnikova I., Kharina O., Россия и Америка в XXI веке 2026 № 1
В статье исследуется российско-индийское сотрудничество в Арктике в условиях геополитического соперничества и санкционного давления Запада. Цель работы – проанализировать стратегические интересы России и Индии, определить перспективы их взаимодействия в энергетике, инфраструктуре и транспортных коридорах, а также выявить основные вызовы. Выводы показывают, что сотрудничество обладает значительным потенциалом для экономического и технологического развития, однако его реализация осложняется ...
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Strelnikova I., Общество и экономика 2026 № 7-8 С. 154–173
Статья посвящена исследованию Трансарктического транспортного коридора (ТАТК) в логике транспортной экономики, международного права и геополитического измерения. На ос нове формально-юридического метода и методов системного анализа достигается цель настоящей статьи – дается комплексная и всесторонняя оценка Трансарктического транспортного коридора в контексте предпосылок его формирования, экономической, геополитической и стратегической значимости; показаны особенности его правового статуса и потенциала ...
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Shaposhnikov S., Asia and Africa today 2025
Digital transformation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India is critical to enhancing competitiveness and improving economic performance. It also helps address unemployment and regional inequality. However, SMEs face financial constraints, a digital skills shortage, resistance to change, and cybersecurity challenges. The authors analyze the impact of government initiatives such as Digital India, CGTMSE, ...
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Goryushina E., Притчин С. А., Пашаева Г. et al., НП РСМД, 2026.
В докладе рассматриваются основные итоги независимого развития, эволюция основ внешнеполитического курса и отношений южнокавказских республик с Россией, а также пути национального строительства, которые прошли государства Южного Кавказа – Грузия, Армения и Азербайджан – с момента распада СССР. В работе относительно каждой из стран представлено два взгляда – из России и самой республики. ...
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Polyakov L., Ортодоксия 2025 № 1 С. 101–122
This article offers reflections on A.V. Shchipkov’s
book Unfinished Nazism: Genesis, Transformations, and Related
Phenomena. In it, the author proposes a quite paradoxical thesis,
identifying liberalism as the ideological “root” of contemporary
Nazism. Previously, drawing connections between liberalism
and fascism was an intellectual move typically confined to leftist
academic circles. However, the author emphasizes that this
particular interpretation of the connection between ...
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M.: BRICS Expert Council – Russia, 2026.
The world experienced another turbulent year in 2025. It may well go down in future history textbooks as an inflection point in the evolution of the international order. The West, which for centuries has been universally seen as the mainstay of the global order, has shown increasing signs of implosion. It is being afflicted by ...
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Zelenev E., Korobochkina A., Russian Japanology Review 2026 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 71–100
This article conducts a comparative historical analysis of the soft power strategies employed by Japan and China in Africa, emphasizing the utilization of cultural, educational, and economic instruments to augment their international
influence. Moving away from the traditional post-1990s perspective, this paper introduces an enhanced form of the timeline approach in order to examine the development process of their soft ...
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Korotayev A., Guseinov R., Ustyuzhanin V., Political Studies Review 2026 P. 1–22
In recent years, a kind of “Berlin Wall” has emerged between the study of “revolutions” and “maximalist campaigns.” Although scholars in these two traditions analyze closely related phenomena, they use different terminology, bodies of literature, and empirical conventions. We argue that this separation is analytically costly and prevents fruitful dialogue. On one hand, this leads ...
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Междуреченск: Кузбасский государственный технический университет им. Т.Ф. Горбачева, 2023.
В сборнике представлены материалы докладов по направлениям Международной научно-практической конференции «Современные тенденции и инновации в науке и производстве»: 1. Горное дело; 2. Экономика и управление; 3. Социально-гуманитарные знания: теория и практика; 4. Информационные системы и технологии; 5. Вопросы технических наук в свете современных исследований; 6. Юный исследователь. Целью этой конференции является обмен передовым опытом, повышения ...
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David J. L., Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A., Springer, 2026.
Complexity is widely acknowledged as a foundational and pivotal concept in Big History, offering a unifying lens through which to examine the emergence and development of systems—from particles and galaxies to life, civilizations, and beyond. Yet, despite its centrality, major gaps remain in how we define, measure, and interpret complexity across different phases and scales. ...
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Styrin E. M., Vigoda-Gadot E., Levitats Z., Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 2026 P. 1–23
Governance is rapidly digitising, yet how citizens’ emotions towards algorithmic policy decision-making relate to their trust in governance institutions remains understudied. Drawing on the affect-as-information model, we argue that emotions constitute a distinct input into institutional trust judgements, operating both directly and by conditioning the weight of cognitive evaluations. We test this argument with a ...
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Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
Added: May 31, 2026
Lola I. S., Asoskov D., Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 Т. 30 № 2 С. 344–376
The article analyzes the transformation of China's economic growth mechanisms in the period after Xi Jinping came to power, with a focus on interprovincial heterogeneity. Based on panel data for 29 provinces of China for 2001-2024, the Bayesian hierarchical regression model is estimated, which makes it possible to identify both average (fixed) and provincial-specific (random ...
Added: May 26, 2026
Helen Selorm Wohoyie, Anikin V. A., Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science 2026 Vol. 90 P. 204–211
Menstrual health serves as a critical litmus test for state intervention in contexts where women’s bodily experiences are historically shaped by stigma, cultural taboos, and structural violence. Drawing on Joseph Gusfield’s theory of social problems, this review traces the moral passage of menstruation in Ghana (1992–2025) from a privately managed, stigmatized phenomenon to a matter ...
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Майхрович М. Я., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 6: Экономика 2025 Т. 60 № 5 С. 178–208
Macroeconomic instability in the period of 2020–2024 has revived discussions about its impact on economic convergence processes and methods for assessing the convergence of developing and developed countries. This paper presents a systematic analysis of modern econometric approaches and existing limitations in testing the convergence hypothesis. The methodological framework is based on classical Solow economic ...
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Майхрович М. Я., Современная мировая экономика 2023 Т. 1 № 4 С. 48–71
The catch-up effect has always been a pressing issue in economics: are developing countries truly catching up with technologically advanced countries, and is the economic gap between rich and poor countries narrowing over the long term? This article aims to test the hypothesis of economic convergence across countries, a key research issue in the field ...
Added: April 29, 2026