Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the relative effectiveness of bilateral and multilateral concessional debts on economic growth in 32 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period 1985–2016. Design/methodology/approach: The recently developed dynamic panel autoregressive...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the likelihood that the presence of the deposit insurance policy encourages risk appetite behavior of banks in Sub-Saharan African (SSA). It argues that financial system stability is not a function of the choice of a deposit insurance scheme, but...

Purpose: Persistent wave of armed conflicts – militancy and terrorism – and the mono-cultural structure of the Nigerian economy, as well as extensive reliance on revenue from crude oil, highlights how external vulnerabilities, weakening internal structure and insecurity could significantly...

Purpose: West Africa represents a very good case of a sub-region currently plagued with the problem of food insecurity. Traditional theories have attributed the increasing food insecurity in the region to problems of poor governance, corruption and climate change. In view of the persistent and...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the effect of financial technology on cash holding in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use Pesaran et al.’s (2001) autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test approach to cointegration to estimate the long-run relationship between...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the effects of board independence and gender diversity on bank performance in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: The two-step system-generalized method moment was used to estimate the effect of board independence and gender diversity on bank performance in...