quantile regressions and external flows consist of remittances, foreign aid, trade openness and foreign investment. The …

contingent on macroeconomic policy factors such as trade, foreign investment, manufacturing value added and agriculture value … promotes ICT development while trade openness (industrial added value) moderate governance to promote (dampen) ICT development …. In sub-Saharan Africa, only trade openness effectively moderates governance to induce an overall positive effect on ICT …

The study has contributed to the extant literature on the relevance of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement … (AfCFTA) by assessing how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female … based on Fixed Effects regressions. The findings show that financial development moderates African trade integration to …

present study explores the link between trade and unemployment for the case of Nigeria with the intention of exploring how the … unemployment crisis has been impacted within the dynamics of the country's trade performance. The empirical evidence shows that the … nation's terms of trade were insignificant to unemployment rate while trade openness and domestic investment, on the other …

This study examines linkages between political stability and trade openness dynamics in a panel of 44 countries in SSA … relationship between political stability and merchandise trade is not significant while the negative relationship between political … stability and trade openness (exports plus imports) is significant. Hence, the findings do not validate the tested hypothesis …

, activity and size in the assessment of how financial, trade, institutional, political and other openness policies (of second … decreases it, with the effect of the latter measure positive on financial size. (ii) Whereas trade openness improves financial …

threshold evidence from GDP growth, infrastructural development and trade openness. Policy implications are discussed. …