This study analyzes the interactive effects of migrant remittances and financial development on savings-investment gap for a panel of 18 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1990-2017. Results from a panel ARDL model show that migrant remittances reduce savings-investment gap in the long run....

This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to what extent does financial development affect this industrialisation- urbanisation nexus? To elicit answers to these questions, data from thirty-three (33) African countries over...

The present paper examines the causal linkage between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth - in Cote' d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone - with financial development accounted for over the period 1970-2005 within a trivariate framework which applies Granger...