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in the literature provide new insights into the finance-inequality nexus. Policy implications are discussed. …
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Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings reveal, but for the case of foreign investment, financial …
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With the spectre of the Euro crisis looming substantially large and scaring potential monetary unions, this study is a short-run trip to embryonic African monetary zones to assess the Schumpeterian thesis for positive spillovers of financial services on growth. Causality analysis is performed...
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The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … substitution of institutions and finance in investment. Results under many baseline and augmented scenarios are not consistent with …
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The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the … challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in finance for more inclusiveness. The overarching question tackled in … advances in finance for inclusive development. The analytical approach consists of first, situating issues of exclusive growth …
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Purpose – The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by … finance and governance as substitutes in their impact on investment implies that good governance fuels private investment and … issues on the other hand. Originality/value – The paper extends the debate on the substitution of finance and institutions in …
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This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …
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about 180 recently published papers to provide recent information technology advances in finance for inclusive development …, innovations and investment strategies with particular emphasis, inter alia on: informal finance, microfinance, mobile banking …, crowdfunding, micro insurance, Islamic finance, remittances, Payment for Environmental Services (PES) and the Diaspora Investment …
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Purpose - This study investigates the role of financial access in moderating the effect of governance on insurance consumption in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries using data for the period 2004-2014. Design/methodology/approach - Two life insurance indicators are used, notably: life insurance...
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The study assesses the role of financial development on income inequality in a panel of 48 African countries for the period 1996 to 2014. Financial development is defined in terms of depth (money supply and liquid liabilities), efficiency (from banking and financial system perspectives),...
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