This study relates foreign direct investment (FDI) to economic growth, institutional quality and manufacturing value added, using panel data techniques that allow for parameter heterogeneity and non-stationarity. The results confirm that economic growth, institutional quality, and natural...

This paper explores the relationship between economic globalisation and environmental quality by incorporating institutions as the determinant of this relationship for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study deploys the technique of generalised methods of moments to assess data spanning the period...

This paper examines the impact of remittance inflows on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries and Rwanda in particular for the period between 1980 and 2014. It explores whether the growth impact of remittances is conditional on the institutional and development factors in SSA...

In this paper, the modulating effect of income inequality in the finance-growth nexus using data from 29 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries is examined. The study examines i) whether financial development still spurs economic growth in the studied countries, and ii) whether income inequality...

In this study, the effect of globalisation (both its de jure and de facto components) on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is examined. The work utilises an ex-post facto research strategy and analyses panel data of 35 SSA nations from 1995 to 2018 using the Dynamic Common...

This study re-evaluates the determinants of international trade in the global south, focusing on intra- and extra-SSA trade while considering financial development and institutional quality as additional predictors. It also examines whether these factors differ for south-south and north-south...