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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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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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Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used indicator from the system of national accounts. Although often …
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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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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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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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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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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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Product (GDP and GDP per capita), conventionally assimilated to economic growth and relevant macroeconomic indicators … GDP and by the change in GDP per capita that can be explained mainly for the data panel considered in the analysis, by …
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domestic product (GDP) in Nigeria. Using annual economic data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the OPEC Annual … between the construction sector output and total GDP output (0.934), the construction sector output and oil prices (0 ….856), and the total GDP output and oil prices (0.822), these linear relationships only exist for a short time. However, these …
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