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Financial development, remittances and economic growth: A threshold analysis

Peprah, James Atta; Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Asomani, Abel Nyarko - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 7 (2019) 1

Sources of economic growth in Ghana have not been clear. Several studies have contributed to the finance and growth literature with little attention on remittances and the joint effect of financial sector development and remittances. This paper uses macrodata to examine the linkages between...

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Do government policies drive economic growth convergence? Evidence from East Java, Indonesia

Solihin, Achmad; Wardana, Wahyu Wisnu; Fiddin, Erfan; … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-24

While Indonesia has been experiencing relatively considerable and stable economic growth in the last decades, the country is prone to income disparity across regions due to uneven distribution of population, natural resources and the persistent impacts of centralized development imposed by the...

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Nexus between economic growth and foreign private investment: Evidence from Pakistan economy

Usman, Muhammad; Zamir, Aysha; Shabbir, Malik Shahzad; … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16

estimators and contains data set starting from 1996 to 2017. The results indicate that the Pakistan economy has vastly positive …, emerging and developed economies investment increases the contribution among domestic firms to the national economy. The … results, which are consistent across models, indicate that Pakistan's economy is more likely to receive FPI from emerging and …

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Asymmetrical effect of oil and gas resource rent on economic growth: Empirical evidence from Ghana

Adabor, Opoku; Buabeng, Emmanuel - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21

We investigate the asymmetric effect of oil and gas resource rent on economic growth of Ghana for the period 2010 to 2019, dwelling on the hypothesis that natural resources extraction has double-edge effect on economic growth. Using Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) model as...

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Revisiting the natural resource curse: A cross-country growth study

Saeed, Khalid Adnan - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

This paper revisits the original natural resource curse study conducted by Sachs and Warner to investigate the relationship between natural resource dependence and per capita growth in recent data consisting of 68 developing countries that includes 14 Middle East & North Africa (MENA) and 6 Gulf...

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The impact of government debt on economic growth in Nigeria

Yusuf, Abdulkarim - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

borrowed funds to the diversification of the productive base of the economy. This will improve long-term economic growth …

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Trade openness and economic growth nexus: Exploring the role of institutional quality in Nigeria

Omoke, Philip Chimobi; Opuala-Charles, Silva - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-17

This study attempts to fill the prior knowledge gap in the nexus between trade openness and economic growth in Nigeria by incorporating the role of institutional quality. The study covers the period from 1984 to 2017 and employs three indicators of trade openness including total trade, import...

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