This study investigates the role of economic and political institutions as drivers of renewable energy production in Africa. To achieve this, the study employs panel data of 41 African countries from 2000 to 2017. To deal with endogeneity challenges associated with panel data, we use the...

Our paper examines the relationship between institutional structures and the level of financial markets development in Africa. Our paper contributes to the extant literature by using other financial market development variables-ease of access to loans and venture capital availability-that have...

The economy of Ghana profiles a trajectory of increasing government expenditure at the backdrop of an inconsistent growth in real GDP. Thus, this study explores the causal relationship between real economic growth and real government expenditure in Ghana between the period 1960 to 2017. The...

The economic growth of most sub-Saharan African countries in the past years has not been able to equalize with other regions. Even though financial development has been highlighted in several empirical literature as a factor that could spur up economic growth, the level of financial development...

Given the declining volumes of Foreign Portfolio Investments (FPI) in Africa, the study sought to examine the moderating role institutional quality (INST) plays in the relationship between country-level corporate governance (CG) and FPI in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is motivated by arguments from...