This study examines the role of domestic governance quality on the relationship between Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI), domestic investment, and African countries' economic growth. The study utilized a larger dataset of Chinese FDI to 44 African countries applying the two-step system...

Facebook has experienced remarkable development in recent years, and has become the most commonly used online social networking site (SNS). Due to its increasing importance and popularity among users, the platform has attracted attention from many academicians and researchers. The current paper...

This study attempts to empirically examine the impacts of the China-Africa economic relationship on factor productivity. The two-step system Generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator is applied to analyze the impacts of the Africa-China economic relationship on factor productivity of 44...

While there is a consensus on the expanding importance of the China-Africa economic relationship, there is much more debate on how to portray the relationship. Thus, this study is aimed to examine the impacts of the China-Africa trade and Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) on the growth of...

The rise of social networking sites (SNS) has changed our ways of communicating and conducting business all over the world. The present study explored the factors affecting the pervasive adoption of SNS by employing the use and gratification theory in considering their entertainment value,...

We investigate the driving factors of Chinese aid allocation to 44 African countries for the periods 2003-2017. The Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML) procedure is applied to estimate the gravity model of aid and loan allocation as it can solve zero-valued observations and heterogeneity...

The purpose of the current research was to analyze the impact of biopsychosocial indicators on the financial risk tolerance (FRT) and financial satisfaction along with the mediating role of macroeconomic literacy in these associations. For this purpose, three indicators names as "personality...

The authors examine the impacts of quality of institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure on overall and intra-Africa trade covering 44 African countries and their 173 trade partners for the periods 2000-2014. Aggregate indicators are derived for...

Informatization, a policy of integrated telecommunications development, is regarded as one of the driving forces behind the Chinese government's new socialist countryside program. Various national and provincial programs have been initiated to connect the agricultural communities to the...

China's four-trillion-yuan stimulus package fueled by bank loans in 2009 has led to the rapid growth of shadow banking activities in China after 2012. The local governments in China financed the stimulus plan mainly through bank loans in 2009, and resorted to non-bank debt financing after 2012...