the rich to the detriment of the poor. The use of financial and investment dimensions previously missing in the literature …

Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … lack of relevant data. This paper integrates previously missing investment and financial components in the assessment of … how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings reveal, but for the case of foreign investment, financial …

private investment: contrary to mainstream consensus where-in, English common-law countries are better at championing private …

intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. Findings show that legal origin matters in the finance-investment … nexus; though its ability to explain aggregate investment dynamics only through financial intermediary channels is limited …

long-run perspective by assessing the relationships among population growth and a plethora of investment dynamics: public … findings reveal a long-run positive causal linkage from population growth to only public investment. But for domestic … investment, permanent fluctuations in human capital affect permanent changes in other forms of investments. Robustness checks on …

investment indicators: public, private, foreign and domestic investments. Using asymmetric panels on data spanning from 1977 to … 2007, we investigate effects of population growth on investment from Granger causality models. Our findings reveal a long …-run positive causal linkage from population growth to only public investment. But for domestic investment, permanent fluctuations …

The role of Africa in world demographic change is primary and consequences on future investment dynamics could provide … investment. Our study reinforces the lack of consensus over the impact of demographic change on economic growth. Main findings … public and private investments in Swaziland; (3) deplete public investment but augment domestic investment in Zambia; (4 …

finance-investment nexus. Using VAR models in the perspectives of VECM and short-run Granger causality, three broad findings … are established: (1) while finance led investment elasticities are positive, investment elasticities of finance are … negative; (2)but for Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and Togo, finance does not seem to engender portfolio investment; (3)contrary to …

-variance framework. We find that an increase in expected output price will surely cause the risk averse firm to increase the inputs …’ demand, while an increase in expected energy price will surely cause the risk averse firm to decrease the demand for energy … risk averse firm to decrease the demands for the non-risky inputs. Furthermore, we investigate the two cases with only …