Chris Pyke

TL;DR: This study presents theoretical and empirical arguments for the role of mobile telephony in promoting good governance in 47 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012 by highlighting the importance of various combinations of governance indicators and their responsiveness to mobile phone usage.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of Sharia supervisory board (SSB) and governance structures on the extent of operational risk disclosures (ORDs), using a sample of 63 Islamic banks from 10 (i.e., Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE) countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the fiscal years 2006 to 2013.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how information and communication technology (ICT) could be employed to dampen the potentially damaging effects of environmental degradation in order to promote inclusive human development in a panel of 44 Sub-Saharan African countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of security officers and the police in dampening the effect of insecurity on homicides was investigated in 163 countries and 2010-2015 using negative binomial regressions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate loan price and quantity effects of information sharing offices with information and communication technology (ICT), in a panel of 162 banks consisting of 42 African countries for the period 2001-2011, and find that ICT when integrated with the role of public credit registries significantly lowered the price of loans and raised the quantity of loans.