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 …

banks that are franchises of the ECB, (2) the secundary savings and loans banks, and (3) the tertiary investment banks. The …

conditional independence. The paper gives a taxonomy of issues of confounding, a parameterization by risk or safety, and develops …