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This research is aimed at assessing the impact of the stock market capitalization and the banking spread in per capita economic growth (as a proxy of economic development) in the major Latin American economies during the period 1994-2012. To do this, a panel data model is estimated with both...
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This article examines whether financial sector development has ‘caused’ economic growth and investment in Ghana between … overall sense, economic and investment have ‘caused’ financial sector development in Ghana …
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In the context of the ongoing world-wide recession and the consequent dim prospects for exports from small Pacific island countries, mobilization of foreign exchange earnings assumes considerable importance. The dependency of Samoa and Tonga on inward remittances is well known, as the two...
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In this study, using bounds approach and annual data for the period 1981-2008, the short and long-run effects of remittances and trade openness on income in Vanuatu are estimated. The results show trade openness and remittances having positive and significant effects, with no significant effects...
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This paper investigates the nexus between financial sector development and economic growth in the Saudi economy over the period 1970-2012 by using four alternative proxies for financial development and several techniques including unit root tests, the co-integration test, the Granger Causality...
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This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured … products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana … challenge for Ghana is to facilitate a comprehensive package of sector specific polices dedicated to fostering the technological …
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international economic spillovers emanating from all trading partners mattered for Ghana’s growth. The study therefore investigated … the spillover effects emanating from three of the eight key trading partners of Ghana, namely, U.S.A., China and Nigeria … Ghana, capturing the effects and specific sources of spillovers from trading partners. An autoregressive distributed lag …
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remittances to Ghana. Design/Methodology/Approach: A dynamic equilibrium-correction mechanism model for the period 1987 …. Findings: The findings reveal two stylized facts with reference to Ghana. First, although financial development Granger … follows that the sequencing of implementing Ghana’s financial reform programmes should be re-examined, whilst an enabling …
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This study examines the effect of tax revenue on economic growth in Ghana using quarterly data for the period 1986 to … effect on economic growth both in the long-run and short-run implying that tax revenue enhances economic growth in Ghana. The … economic growth in Ghana. …
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demand in Ghana over the years. It is found through the review that studies have not reached a consensus on the direction of …
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