This paper examines the corporate financing pattern in Ghana. In particular, it investigates whether Singh''s theoretically anomalous findings that developing country firms make considerably more use of external finance and new equity issues than developed country firms to finance asset growth...

Using data on the distribution of migrants from Africa, GDP growth forecasts for host countries, and after estimating remittance multipliers in recipient countries, this paper estimates the impact of the global economic crisis on African GDP via the remittance channel during 2009-2010. It...

Sub-Saharan Africa needs much faster economic growth and more effective economic, financial, and social policies if it is to make up for lost ground and reduce the number of people living in abject poverty. Edited by Laura Wallace, this volume presents the proceedings of a May 1998 seminar in...

Section 1. Africa’s Agricultural Renaissance -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The imperative of investing in agriculture to catalyze national development -- Chapter 3. The Current State of African Agriculture -- Chapter 4. Agriculture-poverty-inequality nexus in Africa: Theory and...

1. Special Economic Zones Unpacked -- 2. Regulatory and Institutional Framework of Special Economic Zones -- 3. Chinese Experiences on Special Economic Zones -- 4. Overview of Special Economic Zones in Africa. 5. Assessing the Outcomes in Special Economic Zones in Africa -- 6. A Review of the...

1. African smallholders and their market environment -- 2.African Agricultural Value Chains: A Brief Historical Overview -- 3. Economic theory and value chain governance -- 4. The evolution of Agricultural Value Chains in Africa -- 5. Small holders and Markets -- 6. Product quality and...

Part 1. DIGITAL INNOVATION AND VALUE CREATION -- Chapter 1. E-commerce and Globalization: A Bibliometric Review of 24 Years of Research -- Chapter 2. Drones in the Digital Transformation of Healthcare Delivery in Africa -- Chapter 3. Validating Digital Value from Digital Technology Adoption for...

Part I. Context -- Chapter 1: Africa’s economies -- Chapter 2: China’s surge in growth facilitated by Special Economic Zones -- Chapter 3: The Chinese Special Economic Zone Model and China of the future -- Part II. The Emergence of Chinese Special Economic Zones in Africa -- Chapter 4: China...

Our analysis of over 500 Ghanaian firms sheds light, for the first time, on how certain firms managed to extract value from mobile money. Our regressions point to the usefulness of this form of cashless payments in stabilizing sales during the COVID pandemic. Perhaps the most important message...