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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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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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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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This study assesses how financial access can be used to modulate the effect of income inequality on gender economic inclusion. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period 2004-2014 and the empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) and Fixed...
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This research complements the extant literature by establishing inequality critical masses that should not be exceeded in order for financial access to promote gender parity inclusive education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The focus is on 42 countries in the sub-region and the data is for the period...
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The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions and measurement of property rights institutions. We assess … correlate of private investment than financial intermediary development. The interaction of finance and governance is not …
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