We review recent attempts to integrate 'financialisation' processes into Post-Keynesian distribution and growth models and distinguish three principal channels of influence: 1. objectives and finance restrictions of firms, 2. new opportunities for households' wealth-based and debt-financed...

The macroeconomic effects of "financialisation" are assessed applying two different variants of a Kaleckian model of distribution and growth. The focus is on the effects of changes in distribution between shareholders/rentiers, firms and workers, as well as on the effects of increasing...

1. Growth and institutions in African development / Augustin K. Fosu -- 2. Determinants of industrial embeddedness : evidence from manufacturing firms in an African economy / Abdelrasaq Na-Allah -- 3. Does lack of innovation and absorptive capacity retard economic growth in Africa? / Steve...