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Our generation is experiencing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the center of it. There is mounting … long-run perspective by assessing the relationships among population growth and a plethora of investment dynamics: public … findings reveal a long-run positive causal linkage from population growth to only public investment. But for domestic …
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Purpose – Our generation is witnessing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the heart of it. There is … from a long-run perspective by assessing the relationships between population growth and a plethora of investment dynamics …) deplete public investment but augment domestic investment in Zambia; (4) diminish private investment and improve domestic …
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funds only benefit the rich to the detriment of the poor. The use of financial and investment dimensions previously missing …
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Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … lack of relevant data. This paper integrates previously missing investment and financial components in the assessment of … how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings reveal, but for the case of foreign investment, financial …
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assessment of the finance-investment nexus. Design/methodology/approach - VAR models in the perspectives of VECM and short … investment elasticities are positive, investment elasticities of finance are negative; (2)but for Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and … Togo, finance does not seem to engender portfolio investment; (3)contrary to mainstream literature, financial efficiency …
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-Saharan Africa is slightly below the average of Francophone Africa. As a policy implication, results support the benefits of the rule …
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are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The panel quantile regression …
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This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
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We analyze the effects of monetary policy on economic activity in the proposed African monetary unions. Findings broadly show that: (1) but for financial efficiency in the EAMZ, monetary policy variables affect output neither in the short-run nor in the long-term and; (2) with the exception of...
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This paper assesses the adjustment of inflation with financial dynamic fundamentals of money (financial depth), credit (financial activity) and efficiency. Three main findings are established. (1) There are significant long-run relationships between inflation and the fundamentals. (2) The error...
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