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The study has contributed to the extant literature on the relevance of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) by assessing how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female labour force participation. The focus is on 47 African...
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crisis in Africa, using annual series data from the World, Bank from 1980 to 2019. The empirical strategy is based on the …, analysis confirmed the existence of CKC U-shaped nexus in Africa, but the country-level, results are mixed. Furthermore … energy, efficiency in mitigating the aftermath of carbon emissions and preventing a climate crisis in, Africa. …
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agreement, and the expected rebound of foreign direct investment to Africa from 2022, this study examines the joint effects of … industrialisation and digital infrastructure on resource mobilisation in Africa. To this end, we mine data for 42 African countries for …) mobilisation efforts in Africa, the effects of the former is rather remarkable in the presence of the latter. Particularly, we find …
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learning in Africa and includes primary, secondary, and tertiary school enrolment, as well as a lifelong learning index derived … from the PCA. The findings reveal that improving the quality of democracy in Africa can significantly enhance primary … and lifelong learning in Africa. …
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This study investigates the effect of globalisation on governance in 40 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2019, with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), landlockedness (landlocked...
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. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that: (i) remittances heighten income inequality in Africa, (ii) Africa …-à-vis financial access and depth, inefficiencies characterising Africa's financial institution is the main reason remittances … shows that channelling efforts into the development of Africa's financial sector could yield shared income distribution …
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The study assesses the non-linear nexus between fixed broadband and economic growth. It focuses on data from 33 African countries for the period 2010 to 2020. The empirical evidence is based on unit root tests, panel smooth transition regression, and the generalized method of moments. The...
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The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa … stood when controlled for colonisation and internal conflicts. In terms of policy implications, policymakers in Africa …
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globalisation (EG) to foster inclusive green growth (IGG). First, the study finds that EG hampers IGG in Africa. Second, although …
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methods show that gender political inclusion is enhancing on financial inclusion in Africa, and this finding is robust across …
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