Purpose - The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by … institutions to promote investment on the one hand and fighting financial allocation inefficiency by mitigating surplus liquidity … issues on the other hand. Originality/value - The paper extends the debate on the substitution of finance and institutions in …

The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … why the Acemoglu & Johnson (2005) justification provided for the measurement of property rights institutions (PRI) is …

in the structural relations between varied causative factors is more pronounced in Africa where conditions for growth and … determinant of financial development in Africa could have culminated into the misalignment of the continent financialisation … reach conclusions that can redefine policy and research on Africa's financialisation objectives. We compared result along …

Africa remains the most affected by environmental degradation, thereby exacerbating the negative effect of climate … change in the region. Little empirical credence has been leaned to the institutions-environmental sustainability relationship … in Africa. This omission in the literature of environmental sustainability is abysmal, considering the role of …

The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions and measurement of property rights institutions. We assess … the relationships between various components of property rights institutions and private investment, notably: political …, activity and size are also investigated. The findings provide support for the quality of institutions as a better positive …

This study assesses dynamics of openness and finance in Africa by integrating financial development dynamics of depth …

The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only …. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for now, its position in the world system, it may nonetheless create the …

) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the period 1985-2009. The empirical evidence is based on an … of institutions. These results are confirmed with both annual data and five year average data. …