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This study investigates a comparative study on the threshold effects of inflation on financial sector development (FSD) between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) for the period 1980-2011. Using a novel panel smooth...
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The study analysed the relationship between CO2 emissions and economic growth in Ghana, specifically by analysing Ghana's decoupling status from 1990 to 2018. The Tapio elasticity method and the logarithmic mean Divisia index decomposition technique were used in the study to find out what causes...
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Objective Universal health coverage (UHC) is a major pathway to save many people from catastrophic and impover‑ ishing healthcare spending and address the inequality in health and healthcare. The objective of this paper is to assess the efciency with which health systems in sub-Saharan Africa...
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Industrial structure upgrading (ISU) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been improving in recent years, making it essential to examine how such upgrading influences pollution emissions in SSA. However, studies concerning the environment in SSA have overlooked this important role. Consequently,...
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The paper estimate an augmented endogenous economic growth model to investigates the extent to which capital flight affects the impact of external debt on economic growth in selected sub-Saharan African countries. The estimations was done with the aid of a dynamic system generalized method of...
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This study looks at how economic growth, trade liberalisation, and financial development affect the health of the environment in West Africa. The study also looks at how efficient institutions help make the environment in the ECOWAS region more stable. Therefore, the study tested the validity of...
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Home cooking is considered an important activity which promotes healthier lives, sustenance, and binds families and people together. Despite the benefits of home cooking, it is the leading source of household air pollution and its associated health risks particularly for developing countries...
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Over the past fifteen years, the Bank of Ghana has revised the minimum capital requirement to stabilize the banking sector. Motivated by the unintended consequences of regulatory capital, this paper provides empirical evidence between minimum capital requirement and bank performance relationship...
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