become widespread and have increased investment by businesses, especially in East Africa. Second, women-owned business in the …This study connects two important findings in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, digital technologies such as mobile money have … study connects the two findings by exploring whether mobile money use by women-owned firms increases their investment. The …

Does it matter for domestic investment whether a country's financial system is bank based or stock-market based? This … paper posits that financial intermediation affects domestic investment notably by alleviating financing constraints …, allowing firms to increase investment in response to increased demand for output. The key result is that the structure of the …

assessment of the finance-investment nexus. Design/methodology/approach - VAR models in the perspectives of VECM and short … investment elasticities are positive, investment elasticities of finance are negative; (2)but for Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and … Togo, finance does not seem to engender portfolio investment; (3)contrary to mainstream literature, financial efficiency …

determinants of the height gap between children in India and sub-Saharan Africa as Jayachandran & Pande (2... …

This paper uses the data set from the fourth survey by UNIDO of manufacturing firms in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify … whether foreign direct investment affects the behaviour of local firms with respect to investment, product innovation and … perception and eality. The presence of foreign investment has not affected the behaviour of the vast majority of domestic firms …