This paper empirically investigates the change in the relationship between economic growth and financial development as ECOWAS economies grow over the period 1991-2017. The methodology of analysis is the quantile regression, which allows determining the impact of financial development at...

The challenge of decrepit and deficit infrastructure across all sectors in the ECOWAS sub-region is symptomatic of the problems faced by sub-Saharan African countries and indeed the developing world. This paper analyses two critical infrastructure components in the regional community: transport...

In 2009 the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) launched a vision to create a Common Investment Market (CIM). The main objective of the CIM is to harmonize investment codes of all ECOWAS member states in order to boost factor movement and, ultimately, promote trade and...