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Environmental pollution policy of small businesses in Nigeria and Ghana : extent and impact
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Belmondo, Tanankem; Orkoh, … - 2018
Ghana, where there has been a rising industrial growth amidst low regulatory and institutional frameworks. We analyze the … 842 firms (447 for Nigeria and 395 for Ghana) distributed across different regions of both countries for our descriptive … protection is dismally low in both Nigeria (32 percent) and Ghana (17 percent), with policies focused on reducing solid (38 …
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ICT adoption, competition and innovation of informal firms in West Africa : comparative study of Ghana and Nigeria
Karakara, Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel; Osabuohien, Evans - 2020
the cases of Ghana and Nigeria. Design/methods/approach - The study used the World Bank Enterprise Survey data 2014 for … Ghana and Nigeria with binary logistic regression analysis to achieve this. Four different innovations are modelled. They …, these effects varied markedly between Ghana and Nigeria. Firms' spending on R&D, firm giving its employees the chance to …
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African Women Vulnerability index (AWVI) : focus on rural women
Tchamyou, Vanessa; Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2021
In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using the Round 7 Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and...
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Women empowerment and intra-household dietary diversity in Nigeria
Tanankem, Belmondo V.; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2016
This study used a nationally representative survey from the 2012-2013 World Bank's General Household Survey for Nigeria, to examine the relationship between empowerment, measured using a modification of the Alkire et al. (2013) empowerment index, and household dietary diversity, based on the FAO...
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Young rural women participation in the e-wallet programme and usage intensity of modern agricultural inputs in Nigeria
Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2018
We assess the extent young rural women (YRW) participate in the federal government (FGN)e- wallet programme and the subsequent impact on usage intensity of modern agricultural inputs in Nigeria. Six hundred YRW were sampled across six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Using double- hurdle, results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998122
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African Women Vulnerability Index : focus on rural women
Tchamyou, Vanessa; Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2023
In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability Index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using Round 7 of the Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473199
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REER imbalances and macroeconomic adjustments in the proposed West African Monetary Union
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
With the spectre of the Euro crisis hunting embryonic monetary unions, we use a dynamic model of a small open economy to analyze REERs imbalances and examine whether the movements in the aggregate real exchange rates are consistent with the underlying macroeconomic fundamentals in the proposed...
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Comparative Analysis of the Growth Impact of Pollution and Energy Use in Selected West African Nations
Mesagan, Peter Ekundayo; Osuji, Emeka; Agbonrofo, Hope - 2022
growth in selected West African economies, which includes Nigeria, Gambia and Ghana, from 1970 to 2019. Findings confirm that … shows no direct influence among the variables. For Ghana, we find a bi-causal association between output growth and carbon …
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The long run stability of money demand in the proposed West African Monetary Union
Asongu, Simplice; Folarin, Oludele E.; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2018
This study examines the stability of money demand in the proposed West African Monetary Union (WAMU). The study uses annual data for the period 1981 to 2015 from thirteen of the fifteen countries making-up the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). A standard money demand function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998536
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Macroeconomic determinants of Household Consumption in selected West African countries
Iheonu, Chimere Okechukwu; Nwachukwu, Tochukwu - 2020
This study investigates the macroeconomic determinants of household consumption in selected West African countries. The study employed the panel augmented mean group procedure which accounts for heterogeneity and cross sectional dependence in the modelling exercise for the period 1989 to 2018....
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