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Growth and poverty in Africa : shifting fortunes and new perspectives

Shimeles, Abebe - 2014

Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted … Africa and addresses whether or not previously held belief that Africa is too poor to grow is relevant today. The findings … employment, particularly to increase in employment in the industrial sector, than to increase in mean income. In Africa the co …

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Economic growth and child undernutrition in Africa

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012

Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less … growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control …

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Debt-led-growth hypothesis (DLGH) and productive constraints : an empirical evaluation of African economies

Kelikume, Ikechukwu; Otonne, Adewumi - In: International journal of management, economics and … 11 (2022) 1, pp. 48-74

This study investigated the role of productive capacity by testing the debt-led growth hypothesis in 54 African Countries. This study is motivated by the rising nature of external debt following the fallout of the Covid-19 and the neglect of productive capacity in the debt-growth empirical...

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ICT adoption and stock market development in Africa : an application of the panel ARDL bounds testing procedure

Igwilo, Jerry Ikechukwu; Sibindi, Athenia Bongani - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 12, pp. 1-15

the causal relationship between ICT adoption and stock market development in Africa. The study examined a panel of 11 …

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Mitigating the macroeconomic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa : policy synergies

Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021

This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalized synthetic control …

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Efficiency of financial integration, foreign direct investment and output growth : Policy options for pollution abatement in Africa

Mesagan, Peter Ekundayo - In: Economic issues 26 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

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Private capital inflows, institutions and economic growth in Africa

Anetor, Friday Osemenshan; Akinleye, Simeon Oludiran; … - In: Journal of transnational management : the official … 26 (2021) 4, pp. 247-268

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The relationship between finance and growth in North African countries : fresh evidence from panel causality

Karagöl, Erdal Tanas; Özgür, Önder; Gorus, Muhammed … - In: Evoluation of money, banking and financial crisis : …, (pp. 83-94). 2020

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ICT adoption and stock market development : empirical evidence using a panel of African countries

Igwilo, Jerry Ikechukwu; Sibindi, Athenia Bongani - In: Risks : open access journal 10 (2022) 2, pp. 1-17

The aim of this study was to examine the impact of adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) on the development of African stock exchanges. The study examined a panel of 11 African stock exchanges for the period 2008-2017 and employed the generalised method of moments (GMM) to...

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Is regional trade integration a growth and convergence engine in Africa?

Gammadigbe, Vigninou - 2021

Africa and its major Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The results of the instrumental variable and panel fixed …-effects estimation show that RTI promotes economic growth in Africa. However, it fosters income divergence, reflecting the distribution …

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