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 …