Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 553
Cover Image
Foreign aid, poverty and economic growth in developing countries : a dynamic panel data causality analysis
Mahembe, Edmore; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-17
countries for the period 1981–2013. Taking advantage of the recently developed dynamic panel data estimation techniques, the … paper tests for both panel unit roots and cointegration before employing the panel vector error-correction model (VECM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149196
Cover Image
The relationship between aid and economic growth of developing countries : does institutional quality and economic freedom matter?
Abate, Chala Amante - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
quality and economic freedom matters in aid–growth relationship. To this base, a panel data covering the period 2002-2019 was … relationship between foreign aid and economic growth, and dynamic panel threshold regression is utilized to uncover the mediating … result from dynamic panel threshold regression shows that the effect of aid on economic growth is negative when arithmetic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460262
Cover Image
The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456511
Cover Image
What determines import demand in Zimbabwe? : evidence from a gravity model
Ngoma, Gerald - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-16
The notion of the determinants of import demand has become a major policy issue in most countries due to the persistent trade deficits being experienced and their effects on the economy. Against this backdrop, this study empirically examined the factors determining import demand in Zimbabwe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482941
Cover Image
Determinants of Trade Balance in West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) : evidence from heterogeneous panel analysis
Keho, Yaya - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16
This study investigates the determinants of the trade balance in West African and Monetary Union (WAEMU) over the period 1975-2017. We employ the Mean Group (MG) estimator along with the grouped mean version of Dynamic OLS (DOLS) and Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) to deal with both endogeneity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184391
Cover Image
Public debt and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa : nonlinearity and threshold effects
Okwoche, Princewill U.; Makanza, Christine S. - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-24
trade shocks. Our dataset comprises 24 SSA countries spanning 39 years from 1980 to 2018. We employ a variety of panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502811
Cover Image
Panel estimating effects of macroeconomic determinants on inflation : evidence of Western Balkan
Durguti, Esat Ali; Tmava, Qazim; Demiri-Kunoviku, Filloreta - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-13
on the inflation rate for the Western Balkan. The research has applied panel data using dynamic approaches such as fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184108
Cover Image
Fiscal policy, sovereign debt and economic growth in SADC economies : a panel vector autoregression analysis
Makhoba, Bongumusa Prince; Kaseeram, Irrshad - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-12
This study estimates a Panel Vector Autoregressive (PVAR) approach to analyse the impact of fiscal policy and public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013402174
Cover Image
Financial development and economic growth : evidence from a panel of 16 African and non-African low-income countries
Bist, Jagadish Prasad - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-17
This paper aims to investigate the long-run relationship between financial development and economic growth using panel … unit root and panel cointegration analysis in 16 selected low-income countries for the period of 20 years from 1995 to 2014 … exists a cross-sectional dependence across the countries. The Pedroni’s panel cointegration analysis provides clear support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904249
Cover Image
Foreign aid - real exchange rate nexus : empirical evidence from Ghana
Adu, Derick Taylor; Denkyirah, Elisha Kwaku - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-23
The contentious effect of foreign aid on real exchange rate in developing countries leading to Dutch disease necessitates further research since its impact can only be determined empirically. Using annual data gathered from the World Bank Development Index database with reference period of 1980...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023063