This paper investigates how financial, trade, institutional and political liberalization policies have affected …: (1) with the exception of the economic freedom mechanism, liberalization policies have generally decreased the growth of … the formal financial sector to the benefit of other financial sectors; (2) apart from the foreign direct investment and …

Adjustment Programmes. Since the 1980s, international financial institutions have imposed foreign direct investment as the main …

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 …

There are competing views of how HIV/AIDS affects saving, and to a lesser extent, investment. One argument is that … translate through to investment. In fact, the absolute value of the impact the disease has on investment is considerably reduced … saving would necessarily have on investment is negated. …

(competitive) obstacles to innovation; and strengthening the knowledge base through investment in education, research and …

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 …