Purpose: This paper aims at identifying the major obstacles to business enterprise in an emerging economy and how these obstacles are associated with different characteristics of the enterprises. Design/methodology/approach: The study relied on the World Bank Enterprise Survey data on Ghana and...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of economic openness (EO) on the relationship between, foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth (EG) in Sudan. The results of employing standard approach estimator shown that economic openness is partially mediate the...

Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution of income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been the subject of considerable research in the analysis of inequality. Such intergenerational linkages are anticipated to come from two sources: first, the inheritance of innate abilities and...