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This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …
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Purpose - This paper introduces previously missing financial components(efficiency, activity and size) in the assessment of the finance-investment nexus. Design/methodology/approach - VAR models in the perspectives of VECM and short-run Granger causality are employed. Usage of optimally...
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This research focuses on assessing how improving openness influences CO2 emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is based …) 49 countries for the period 2006- 2018. Openness is measured in terms of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI …. First, enhancing trade openness has a net positive impact on CO2 emissions, while increasing FDI has a net negative impact …
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Motivated by the projected rebound of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) following the … implementation of the AfCFTA and the finalization of the Africa Investment Protocol, we examine how FDI modulates the effects of … FDI and various governance indicators (rule of law, control of corruption, regulatory quality, governance effectiveness …
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This study examines whether the remarkable inflow of resources in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) to SSA … effect of FDI on inclusive growth in SSA. To this end, we draw data on 42 SSA countries for the period 1990 - 2020 for the … analysis. The evidence, which are based on the GMM estimator shows that: (1) though FDI fosters inclusive growth in SSA, the …
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inflow of Chinese FDI to Africa matters for bridging the continent's marked income inequality gap, (ii) Africa …'s institutional fabric is effective in propelling Chinese FDI towards the equalisation of incomes in Africa, and (iii) there exist … relevant threshold levels required for the various governance dynamics to cause Chinese FDI to equalise incomes in Africa. Our …
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FDI to foster inclusive green growth (IGG) in Africa. Also, little has been done to show the IGG gains from improving EE … and FDI in fostering IGG in Africa by using macrodata for 23 countries from 2000 to 2020. According to our findings, which … are based on dynamic GMM estimator, FDI hampers IGG in Africa, while EE fosters IGG. Notably, in the presence of EE, the …
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foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade on ecological footprints in 37 African countries for the period 1990 … to 2019. Utilizing the pooled mean group estimator, our findings show considerable heterogeneity in the impact of FDI and … international trade on ecological footprints in the short run. In particular, the findings revealed that while FDI increases …
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Existing studies have been separated, considering the foreign direct investment (FDI) and renewable energy development … moderation of governance quality on the FDI-renewable energy nexus is quite scarce. To fill the gap in the literature, the study … therefore examines the moderation of governance quality on the influence of FDI on (RE) in 37 sub-Saharan African economies over …
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arguments on the need for a development paradigm in Africa that reconciles the Washington Consensus with the Beijing Model. The …
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