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 …

We study how alternative measures of market concentration may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing … econometric assessments suggest that investment decisions of Mexican firms can be better explained by the Dominance Index measure … certain characteristics of the firms (size, cash flows, investment opportunities and capital intensity) as control variables. …

We study how the ownership and control structures may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We … claim that agency costs, as a measure of the separation of management and control, and firms` size can explain investment … decisions. Furthermore the estimations support the necessity to include investment opportunities and cash flow as control …

We study how competition and corporate governance may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We … census data. Our results suggest that investment is better explained by the Dominance Index, a Mexican measure of … ownership and control), and market competition may encourage investment decisions. Furthermore they suggest an inverse …