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Purpose This paper aims to reconsider the role of asset-market participation in Diamond-Dybvig economies, to reconcile the existence of asset markets as a channel for financial integration with the distortions that they might impose on the banking system. Design/methodology/approach The paper is...
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Purpose Developing countries are increasingly looking to private sector investment for infrastructure development. Successful development of private infrastructure projects, however, depends on adequate availability of long-term debt to complement private sector equity. As domestic bond markets...
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mobilization, bank liquidity management, risk taking and long-run investment. Social implications – The author's recommendations …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss developments in governance in Africa and the opportunities this offers to accounting, auditing and accountability researchers. The paper also provides an overview of the other contributions in this accounting, auditing and accountability special...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors affecting the adoption of agricultural technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically the role of credit market inefficiency in adoption of agricultural technologies in the region. Design/methodology/approach Most importantly, the...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the impact of a growth enhancement support scheme (GESS) on the enabling environment of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The main aim is to investigate the impact of the GESS on access to rural farm credit and the transport...
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(SSA). Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the World Bank country-level data from 20 SSA countries for the year 2014 … using the World Bank FI data set. Furthermore, this is the first attempt to estimate the determinants of FI with a combined …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of portfolio equity flows to the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region over the period 1996-2010. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a sample of 14 SSA countries to estimate the baseline regression through employing the...
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/methodology/approach Data from 18,000 individuals from 18 SSA economies are used for the analysis. These data are sourced from the World Bank …
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Purpose – The financial economics literature points to the likelihood that transparency affects the inflows of direct foreign investments. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between degree of transparency in an economy and the level of foreign direct investment (FDI)...
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