• A macroeconomic viewpoint using a structural VAR analysis of silver price behaviour 

  Zurika, Robinson (2023-06)

  This article investigates silver price as a fluctuating commodity price since the financial crisis of 2007-2009. In this regard, a structural vector autoregression (VAR) was applied to observe the sensitivity of the silver ...
• The role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty in Ghana 

  Asongu, Simplice A (2023-06)

  This paper assesses the role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty in Ghana. The assessment is made by using pooled data and two stage least squares. The exposition builds ...
• Female unemployment, mobile money innovations and doing business by females 

  Asongu, Simplice A (2023-05)

  The purpose of this study is to complement extant literature by examining how mobile money innovations can moderate the unfavorable incidence of female unemployment on female doing of business in 44 countries from sub-Saharan ...
• The effect of inequality on poverty and severity of poverty in SSA: the role of financial development institutions 

  Asongu, Simplice A (2023-05)

  The present study investigates the incidence of financial institutions' dynamics of depth and access in the effect of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 ...
• Health performance and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: new evidence based on quantile regressions 

  Asongu, Simplice A (2023-05)

  The present study investigates the nexus between health performance dynamics and economic growth in 43 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004-2018. Four health performance dynamics are used, notably: total ...
• Military Expenditure, Policy Syndromes and Tourism in the World 

  Asongu, Simplice A (2023-05)

  This study assesses the importance of military expenditure in moderating the role of insecurity dynamics on tourist arrivals or international tourism in 163 countries. It is framed to assess how the future of international ...
• Economic sectors and globalization channels to gender economic inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa 

  Asongu, Simplice A (2023-04)

  This study complements the extant literature by assessing economic sector and globalization channels for gender economic inclusion. The study is focused on 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1995-2019 and ...
• Bank accounts, bank concentration and mobile money innovations 

  Asongu, Simplice A (2023-04)

  The present study investigates how increasing bank accounts and bank concentration affect mobile money innovations in 148 countries. It builds on scholarly and policy concerns in the literature that increasing bank accounts ...
• Microfinance institutions and female entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: avoidable female unemployment thresholds 

  Asongu, Simplice A (2023-04)

  The present study contributes to the extant literature by assessing how microfinance institutions (MFIs) affect female entrepreneurship, contingent on female unemployment levels. The study focuses on 44 countries in ...
• Information technology, inequality and adult literacy in developing countries 

  Asongu, Simplice A (2023-01)

  The study assesses linkages between information technology, inequality and adult literacy in 57 developing countries for the period 2012-2016. Income inequality is measured with the Gini coefficient while six dynamics of ...
• Macroeconomic determinants of fiscal policy in east Africa: a panel causality analysis 

  Mawejje, Joseph (2022-12)

  This study investigates the dynamic causality linkages between fiscal deficits and selected macroeconomic indicators in a panel of five East African countries. The research design is based on panel cointegration tests, ...
• The determinants and cyclicality of fiscal policy: empirical evidence from east Africa 

  Mawejje, Joseph (2022-12)

  As part of the regional integration process, East African Community (EAC) member countries agreed upon macroeconomic convergence criteria that include, among others, harmonizing and restricting the level of fiscal deficits. ...
• Nonlinear effects of bank regulation stringency on bank lending in selected sub-Saharan African countries 

  Thamae, Retselisitsoe I (2022-12)

  This paper investigates the nonlinear effects of bank regulation stringency on bank lending in 23 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period 1997-2017. It employs the dynamic panel threshold regression (PTR) model, ...
• Bank regulation, supervision and lending: empirical evidence from selected sub-Saharan African countries 

  Thamae, Retselisitsoe I (2022-12)

  This study investigates the impact of bank regulation and supervision on bank credit in 23 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and their low- and middle-income groups from 1995 to 2017. The long-run results indicated that ...
• The impact of bank regulation on bank lending: A review of international literature 

  Thamae, Retselisitsoe I (2022-12)

  This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the impact of bank regulation on bank lending. It also structures the empirical evidence according to the impact of various bank regulatory measures on bank ...
• Bank regulation in the selected sub-Saharan African countries: Dynamics and trends 

  Thamae, Retselisitsoe I (2022-12)

  This paper discusses the dynamics of bank regulation in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region during the period before the 1990s and post 1990s and describes the trends in bank regulatory measures between 1995 and 2017 using ...
• Capital flows to low-income sub-Saharan Africa: An exploratory review 

  Braiton, Nombulelo (2022-12)

  Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine macroeconomic and institutional factors that influence capital flows to low-income sub-Saharan African (SSAn) countries. It analyzes capital flows in a disaggregated manner: ...
• The impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Africa: Empirical evidence from low-income countries 

  Tefera, Mamo G (2022-12)

  This paper aims to shed some insights on the ongoing debate on the aid-growth nexus by examining whether sources of aid matters for explaining aid effectiveness. In doing so, we consider three main proxies for bilateral ...
• The dynamics of public debt in Malawi: A review 

  Saungweme, Talknice (2022-12)

  This study provides an exploratory review of Malawi's government debt, how it has impeded development and suggests potential solutions. The study examines the size, composition, and structure of Malawi's public debt stock ...
• External debt, domestic debt and inflation in Nigeria: A multivariate granger-causality test 

  Aimola, Akingbade U (2022-12)

  Most recent studies have established a significant link between public debt and inflation in developed and developing countries. However, limited studies dealt with the direction of causality between these variables. Since ...

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