Empirical evidence for the compensation hypothesis holds that trade openness independent of income risk has no … significant effects on government size. Hence, using time series data for the period 1965-2013 from Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria … and South Africa and applying the bounds test method of cointegration, this paper investigates the nature of the …

Agriculture remains one of the major sources of livelihood in West Africa. The sector accounts for a significant share … agricultural productivity in West Africa from 1990 to 2020. Using the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) and the Common Correlated Effect … agricultural productivity in West Africa. We discussed some policy implications based on these findings. …

green growth (IGG) in Africa. Our contribution is novel from both the conceptual and empirical perspectives. With regard to …

FDI to foster inclusive green growth (IGG) in Africa. Also, little has been done to show the IGG gains from improving EE … and FDI in fostering IGG in Africa by using macrodata for 23 countries from 2000 to 2020. According to our findings, which … are based on dynamic GMM estimator, FDI hampers IGG in Africa, while EE fosters IGG. Notably, in the presence of EE, the …

-2017. It further argues that uncertainty is an important channel through which asymmetry operates. As such, the three measures … of uncertainty are macroeconomic, fiscal and institutional. The Generalised Method of Moments is used as an empirical … flows and proxies for uncertainty. …

The study applies a BEKK GARCH-M model to examine the effect of uncertainty on the levels of inflation and output … growth in Nigeria. The results suggest a significant positive effect of inflation uncertainty on the level of inflation …, supporting the Cukierman and Meltzer (1986) hypothesis. In addition, uncertainty about inflation is found to be detrimental to …

In recent decades, the impact of South African foreign direct investment in Africa has been captured by research and … Kenya. The study uses primary data to investigate qualitative implications. The findings reveal that South African firms …

qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are …

The objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania … programmes. We found that firms in Kenya and Zimbabwe have a higher number of male than female employees, while zones in Tanzania …