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This paper integrates a previously missing wealth-effect component in the openness-finance debate. From a panel of 29 low and middle income African countries with data spanning from 1987 to 2008, we provide evidence that openness (trade and financial) triggers less bank efficiency in low income...
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We employ interactive quantile regressions to assess conditional linkages between foreign aid, iron ore exports and …, it is primarily in the countries with the highest level of iron ore exports that terrorism affects exports. Second …, bilateral aid has an impact on iron ore exports, while the evidence for such a relationship between multilateral aid and iron …
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The study investigates whether development assistance can be used to crowd-out the negative effect of terrorism on international trade. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008 and Quantile Regressions. The following main findings are...
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Linkages between foreign aid, terrorism and natural resource (fuel and iron ore) exports are investigated in this study … specifications corresponding to iron ore exports do not hold. Second, there is evidence of convergence in fuel exports. Third … consistently positive on fuel exports. Fourth, the interaction between terrorism and aid dynamics consistently display negative …
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potentially negative effect of terrorism on fuel exports in 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilateral and …. Second, while bilateral aid consistently decreases (increases) fuel exports at the top (bottom) quantiles, multilateral aid … regularly decreases fuel exports in the top quantiles. Third, for negative thresholds in the 50th quartile and 90th decile …
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This study provides a comprehensive assessment of firms' operation and environmental protection polices in Nigeria and Ghana, where there has been a rising industrial growth amidst low regulatory and institutional frameworks. We analyze the extents to whic h firms' adoption of environmental...
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This study employs the Pool Mean Group framework to investigate the impact of corporate finance and industrial performance on pollution in Africa between 1990 and 2020. The study, which focuses on 36 African nations, found that corporate financing insignificantly enhances environmental quality...
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Purpose - A spectre is hunting embryonic African monetary zones: the EMU crisis. This paper assesses real and monetary policy convergence within the proposed WAM and EAM zones. The introduction of common currencies in West and East Africa is facing stiff challenges in the timing of monetary...
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Purpose - A spectre is hunting embryonic African monetary zones: the EMU crisis. This paper assesses real, monetary and fiscal policy convergence within the proposed WAM and EAM zones. The introduction of common currencies in West and East Africa is facing stiff challenges in the timing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390791
Purpose - Assessment of African financial development dynamic convergences in money, credit, efficiency and size. Design/Methodology - The empirical evidence is premised on 11 homogenous panels based on regions (Sub-Saharan and North Africa), income-levels (low, middle, lower-middle and...
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