The impact of innovation on every economy cannot be overemphasized. Hence, this study investigates empirically the impact of inward FDI on host firms' innovation in Nigeria and South Africa using the World Bank Enterprise Survey dataset (WBES). In examining this relationship between FDI and firm...

Financial market inadequacies often constrain overseas trade flows because exporters largely rely on access to external credit to survive. This article examines the influence of external credit (bank finance; and suppliers and customer credit) on exports size of manufacturing firms in Nigeria...

This paper chronicles the evolution of industry in Ghana over the post-independence era from an inward over-protected import substitution industrialization strategy of 1960-83 to an outward liberalized strategy during 1984-2000, and since 2001, to the private sector-led accelerated industrial...

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education more than triples from primary to secondary level or...