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Contrary to mainstream consensus on the dominance of English common law countries in investment prospects, this paper … in private investment. The assessment is based on 38 African countries for the period 1996-2007. The law mechanisms of … North African) have influenced a plethora of investment dynamics (domestic, foreign, private and public). The dominance of …
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This research assesses the importance of financial access on value added in three economic sectors in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa using data for the period 1980-2014. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments. Financial access is measured with private domestic...
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, years of schooling, and health factors. We find; first, a positive association between foreign direct investment, trade … openness, foreign aid, remittances and total factor productivity. However, when foreign direct investment is interacted with …
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The study examines the long run relationship and interconnections between public debt and domestic investment in 13 … Squares (FMOLS), debt (% of GDP) and external debt have an insignificant effect on investment in the long run, suggesting the … negligible effect of public debt on the level of investments. But domestic investment Granger causes public debt indicators …
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investment (FDI) on economic growth dynamics in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1980-2014. The employed …
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investment, though may be exogenous to growth, has been identified to bring about productivity and ecological spillovers. In view … domestic or foreign investments in Nigeria. The results show that domestic investment increases CO2 emissions in the short run … while foreign investment decreases CO2 emissions in the long run. When the dataset is decomposed into three sub-samples in …
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modulating the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic dynamics of gross domestic product (GDP) growth, real GDP …
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Global value chain (GVC) participation has been identified as one of the means by which developing countries can attain inclusive growth yet little attention has been paid to it in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Motivated by the dearth of studies on SSA, we investigate the effect of GVC participation...
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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 investment dynamics only through financial intermediary channels is limited …
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disastrous effect. Driving energy efficiency requires investment in energy-efficient technology, but the challenge for developing …
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