“…The political institutions in developing nations still concentrate a great deal of power in the public sector on the widespread corruption compared to the richer and developed nations of the world (Olken & Pande, 2012;Svensson, 2005;Treisman, 2000), which affects development of stock market in particular and economic growth in general (Bolgorian, 2011;Yartey, 2010;Hooper, Sim & Uppal, 2009). In addition, compared to the developed countries, developing countries account for more than 60% of the world's population but produce less than 30% of global GDP (Spence, 2011).…”