Purpose: This paper investigates whether institutional environment influences the relationship government spending and economic growth in ECOWAS over the period 2008–2017. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopts the recently developed panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) by Abrigo and...

Purpose: This paper focuses on three key metrics of poverty, income distribution and employment to ascertain the pro-poor and inclusive-growth position of the western African region. The roles of governance structures and their interactive effects are also accommodated to capture the...

Purpose: This study investigates the presence of portfolio diversification benefits for South African, Nigerian, Ghanaian and Kenyan fixed-income investors diversifying bond portfolios in the Malaysian sovereign Sukuk market. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses wavelet coherence and a...