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This research focuses on assessing how improving openness influences CO2 emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is based … promoting the green economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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This study dissects with great acuteness some of the big questions on China-Africa relations in order to debunk … direction of China-Africa relations. In the mean, the relationship from an economic standpoint is promising and encouraging but …
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Contrary to mainstream consensus on the dominance of English common law countries in investment prospects, this paper sets a new tone in the legal origins debate by providing empirical validity on the dominance of French civil-law countries in private investment. The assessment is based on 38...
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This paper assesses if legal origin explains domestic, foreign, private and public investments through financial intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. The findings show that legal origin matters in the finance-investment nexus, though its ability to explain aggregate...
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Purpose - The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by Acemoglu and Johnson (2005), Ali (2013) and Asongu (2014). We assess the effects of various components of governance on private investment, notably: political, economic and...
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countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It complements the literature by examining the relevance of enhancing three types of external …
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influence domestic investment in Africa, except for government effectiveness which happens to be insignificant. Also, Voice …. Furthermore, economic growth is also an important factor in explaining domestic investment in Africa. Policy recommendations are …
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Purpose - This study examines how doing business affects inclusive human development in 48 sub-Saharan Africa for the … reasons: (i) Exclusive development is a critical policy syndrome in Africa because about 50% of countries in the continent did … Africa is primarily driven by large extractive industries and with the population of the continent expected to double in …
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This paper provides a systematic review of challenges to doing business in Africa. It complements the extant literature …; and what are the challeng es to doing business in Africa? In providing answers to the se questions, the nexus between the …
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-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit regressions and Generalised Method of Moments. The …
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