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 …

This study assesses dynamics of openness and finance in Africa by integrating financial development dynamics of depth …, activity and size in the assessment of how financial, trade, institutional, political and other openness policies (of second …) measurement decreases it, with the effect of the latter measure positive on financial size. (ii) Whereas trade openness improves …

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 …

. In sub-Saharan Africa, only trade openness effectively moderates governance to induce an overall positive effect on ICT … 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 …

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

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 complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …

four economic and monetary regions in Africa for the period 1980 to 2008. Banking system and financial system efficiencies … sensitive to financial openness compared to trade openness and most sensitive to globalization. The relationship between …