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Resource abundance characterizes economies within the MENA region from North Africa to the Middle East. As such, to … stronger institutions are crucial for MENA's overall financial stability vis-à-vis reduction in the risk of default in the …
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Policy reform debates in African economies often focus on poverty alleviation programs, liberalisation of trade and market and social service provisions. These reforms are heavily dependent on funding from either foreign sources or natural resource wealth, accompanied with concessions from the...
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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 …
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In this study, nexuses between governance and natural resource rents are assessed in 44 sub-Saharan African countries using data for the period 1996-2016. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit regressions. The findings show that political governance (entailing “voice &...
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below the established thresholds are mainly from Africa. Policy implications are discussed with specific emphasis on African …
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economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains unexplored. To fill this gap, first we determine whether natural resource …
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the variances in Africa's growth process as induced by robust measures of factor endowments. This study used a … and environmental economics literature in Africa. These comprehensive data on oil rent, coal rent, and forest rent could …, coal rent and economic development in Africa. Forest rent, on the other hand, is inversely related to economic growth in …
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crisis in Africa, using annual series data from the World, Bank from 1980 to 2019. The empirical strategy is based on the …, analysis confirmed the existence of CKC U-shaped nexus in Africa, but the country-level, results are mixed. Furthermore … energy, efficiency in mitigating the aftermath of carbon emissions and preventing a climate crisis in, Africa. …
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The main contribution of this study is the determination of an endogenous threshold of institutional quality, beyond which external debt would affect economic growth differently. The focus is on 14 countries of the African Franc zone over the period 1985-2015. Based on the panel Smooth Threshold...
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