In this paper, we review the existing literature on the relationship between financial liberalization and economic growth, highlighting both the theoretical framework and empirical evidence. Our review is different from ...
This study examines how doing business affects inclusive human development in 48 sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012.The measurement of inclusive human development encompasses both absolute pro-poor and relative ...
The mad rush for rapid economic growth led by industrialization in emerging economies is having a negative impact on ecological management. Rapid economic growth and expansion of economic activities in most developed ...
The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on the relationship between coal consumption and economic growth, highlighting both the theoretical framework and the empirical evidence. The direction of ...
The study investigates the determinants of aggregate and disaggregated import demand for Tanzania, over the period 1985 to 2015. The study employed the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. The ...
In this paper, the dynamic relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Botswana is examined using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. In order to test the robustness of the ...
This paper examines the dynamic relationship between energy consumption and financial development in South Africa during the period 1980-2013. In order to address the omission of variable bias, the study has included ...
This paper examines the determinants of both aggregate and disaggregated import demand in the case of Ghana for the period from 1985 to 2015. The study employed the newly developed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) ...
In this paper, we examine the dynamic causal relationship between financial development and economic growth in French- and English-speaking African countries during the period 1990-2014 – using a trivariate panel ...
In this study, the dynamic causal relationship between oil price and economic growth in Kenya has been explored during the period from 1980 to 2015. A trivariate Granger-causality framework that incorporates oil consumption ...
In this paper, we examine the key determinants of stock market development in Brazil during the period from 1980 to 2016. The study was motivated by the growing important role of stock market development in economic ...
This study investigates the determinants of import demand in South Africa from 1985 to 2015, using the autoregressive distributed-lag estimation approach. Unlike some previous studies that used a single model, the study ...
This study investigates whether information sharing channels that are meant to reduce information asymmetry have led to an increase in financial access. The study employs a Generalised Method of Moments technique using ...
In the light of challenges to sustainable development in the post-2015 development agenda, this study assesses how increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions affect inclusive human development in 44 countries in sub-Saharan ...
The Quiet Life Hypothesis (QLH) is the pursuit of less efficiency by firms. In this study, we assess if powerful banks in the African banking industry are increasing financial access. The QLH is therefore consistent with ...
We analyze the evolution of fast emerging economies of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa) and MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria & Turkey) countries, by assessing growth determinants throughout the ...
This paper examines the dynamic impact of trade openness on economic growth in Lesotho
using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound testing approach. The study employs
four indicators of trade openness, which ...
In this paper, the dynamic relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Botswana is examined using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. In order to test the robustness of the ...
This paper examines the impact of trade openness on economic growth in South Africa. The study employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound testing approach to investigate the dynamic impact of trade openness ...