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2025

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Improving women's access to higher education in sub-Saharan Africa : the role of foreign direct investment

Kapume, Hervé Kato-Kale; Bobbo, Amadou; Ouedraogo, … - 2026

This study investigates the direct effects and transmission channels of foreign direct investment (FDI) on women's access to higher education in a panel of 33 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2004 - 2018. Using fixed effects, the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM), Lewbel's double...

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Economic complexity index and the environmental performance in central and eastern European countries

Arıç, Kıvanç Halil; Alsayed, Ahmed; Çevik, Dilek Şahin - 2026

The pursuit of the European Union's Green Deal goals emphasizes the growing necessity for member states to align and harmonize their production systems. In this context, analyzing the environmental consequences of the economic frameworks of Central and Eastern European countries, which have been...

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Terrorism hinders firms' access to credit

Avom, Désiré; Abdramane, Cherif - 2026

This article analyzes the effect of terrorism on firms' access to credit. To this effect, we constitute a sample of 29,000 firms from 78 countries, both developed and developing, selected from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) data. The results obtained from the estimates of a Probit model...

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Effects of global value chains on economic growth : are regional trade agreement, financial development, and mobile cellular the mediating channels in ECOWAS?

Mamba, Essotanam - 2026

The ambiguous effect of trade on economic growth is widely investigated, but the specific effect of trade in global value chains (GVCs) and notably their main mediating channels are less explored. Our research analyzes the effects of GVCs on economic growth, identifies growth-enhancing...

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Collapse and convergence : the economic impact of EU membership and institutional improvements in post-Soviet countries

Auriat, Scott - 2025

This paper analyzes the economic growth trajectories of post-communist countries that emerged following the collapse of the USSR. I treat the Soviet Union's sudden dissolution as a natural experiment that triggered rapid institutional changes, providing a unique opportunity to iso- late...

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Religiosity and firms' credit access : empirical evidence from 16 developing countries

Lobez, Frédéric; Statnik, Jean-Christophe; Thi Le Giang Vu - 2025

Access to credit remains a universal challenge for firms, particularly for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). While numerous studies have examined the determinants of credit access, focusing primarily on borrower characteristics, lender policies, and formal institutional factors such as...

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Sport and happiness : an evidence from football

Mignamissi, Dieudonné; Tebeng, Eric Xaverie Possi; … - 2025

One of the beautiful things about football is that it brings people from all over the world together to share their love of the game. The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of football on happiness using the number of points a country has in FIFA. To achieve this, we specify and estimate...

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How the post-COVID-19 US economy lost and then regained momentum against the Eurozone economy

Rostan, Pierre; Rostan, Alexandra - 2025

The objective of the paper is to assess and compare the resilience of the post-Covid US and Eurozone economies. Quarterly growth rates (annualized) of the Real GDP of US and the Eurozone are forecasted between Q4 2023 and Q4 2050. Two sets of forecasts are generated: forecasts using historical...

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Rethinking comparative economics

Ramello, Giovanni B. - 2025

of the European Journal of Comparative Economics as a vantage point for observing broader disciplinary changes …

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