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Asymmetric effect of oil price on economic growth : panel analysis of low-income oil-importing countries
Akinsola, Motunrayo O.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Energy reports 6 (2020), pp. 1057-1066
This paper examines the impact of oil price on economic growth in seven low-income oil-importing sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, namely Ethiopia, Gambia, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. Using panel-Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (panel-ARDL), we examined the impact of oil...
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Environmental quality, infant morality, and economic growth in selected sub-Saharan African countries
Aderounmu, Busayo; Awofiranye, Adedoyin; Oni, Olubusayo … - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 26 (2023) 2, pp. 149-162
Beyond the usual macroeconomic stability, which is a necessity for economic growth, more focus should be placed on the effects that environmental quality has on infant mortality in sub‑Saharan Africa. Africa has always had the highest rate of infant mortality and the poorest environmental...
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The effect of interest rate, inflation rate, GDP, on real economic growth rate in Jordan
Saymeh, Abdul Aziz Farid; Marwan Mohammad Abu Orabi - 2013
The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of interest rate, inflation rate, and GDP on real … the integration order of the variables. Acointegration analysis with four variables (economic growth, interest rate, GDP … rate. Finally regression used to test GDP, interest rate, and inflation rate together; results have shown that current GDP …
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Measuring economic well-being and sustainability : a practical agenda for the present and the future
Ven, Peter J. van de - In: Eurostat review on national accounts and macroeconomic … (2019) 1, pp. 7-41
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used indicator from the system of national accounts. Although often …
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The measurement of public goods : lessons from 10 years of Atkinson in the United Kingdom
Foxton, Fred; Grice, Joseph; Heys, Richard; Lewis, James - In: Eurostat review on national accounts and macroeconomic … (2019) 2, pp. 7-50
When considering issues of measuring welfare beyond gross domestic product (GDP), a key ongoing, but unfinished, agenda … approximation of the value added by key public services, and thus their contribution to GDP. New data and intelligent use of …
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Remittances and the Dutch disease in sub-Saharan Africa : a dynamic panel approach
Owusu-Sekyere, Emmanuel; Van Eyden, Reneé; Kemegue, … - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 3, pp. 289-298
This paper investigates the effect of remittance inflows on real exchange rates in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using annual data from 1980 to 2008 for 34 countries, the method of moments estimator developed by Arellano and Bover (1995) and the feasible generalized least squares estimator developed...
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Credit risk in microfinance industry : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Chikalipah, Sydney - In: Review of development finance 8 (2018) 1, pp. 38-48
Paradoxically, a plethora of empirical evidence in the traditional banking industry claims that smaller loans are associated with higher risk and the exact opposite is true for large loans. In this study we investigate these claims by estimating the relationship between loan sizes and credit...
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The impact of foreign financial inflows on the economic growth of sub-Saharan African countries : an empirical approach
Ayenew, Belesity Bekalu - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-12
The impact of foreign financial inflows on the economic growth of recipient countries is a controversial issue in many empirical studies. The majority of the previous studies use one variable as an indicator of foreign financial inflows; they fail to incorporate many variables. The study fills...
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Natural resources, conflict and growth nexus
Wizarat, Shahida - 2013
positive and significant impact on GDP in the developed countries (DCs), while the lagged value of the conflict coefficient has … a negative and significant impact on GDP in the LDCs for the period 1980-2006. In the conflict model using panel data …
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Nexus between foreign direct investment and economic growth in Bangladesh : an augmented autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach
Sarker, Bibhuti; Khan, Farid - In: Financial innovation : FIN 6 (2020) 10, pp. 1-18
revealed the opposite result. Studies that examined the causality between FDI and gross domestic product (GDP) also have found … between FDI and GDP in Bangladesh by employing standard time-series econometric tools, namely, augmented Dickey … causality to explore the direction of causality. The augmented ARDL model found a long-run relationship between FDI and GDP. In …
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