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Financial sector reforms and economic growth in Ghana: A dynamic ARDL model

Owusu, Erasmus L.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Contemporary Economics 9 (2015) 2, pp. 181-192

This paper examines the relationship between financial sector reforms and sustainable economic growth in Ghana. Employing the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach and using GDP per capita as a growth indicator, this paper establishes a long-run relationship between...

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GDP per capita in Africa before the global financial crisis: Persistence, mean reversion and long memory features

Gil-Alana, Luis A.; Yaya, OlaOluwa S.; Shittu, Olanrewaju I. - In: CBN Journal of Applied Statistics 06 (2015) 1, pp. 219-239

This paper examined the long memory features of GDP per capita data before the global financial crisis, using a sample of 26 African countries. The study employed fractional integration and tested the stability of the differencing parameter across the sample period for each country. The results...

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Does trade reduce poverty? A view from Africa

Le Goff, Maëlan; Singh, Raju Jan - In: Journal of African Trade 1 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14

Although trade liberalization is being actively promoted as a key component in development strategies, theoretically, the impact of trade openness on poverty reduction is ambiguous. On the one hand, a more liberalized trade regime is argued to change relative factor prices in favor of the more...

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On the accuracy of trade and GDP statistics in Africa: Errors of commission and omission

Jerven, Morten - In: Journal of African Trade 1 (2014) 1, pp. 45-52

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The potential for internal trade and regional integration in Africa

Seid, Edris Hussein - In: Journal of African Trade 2 (2015) 1/2, pp. 19-50

This study examines the potential for intra-Africa trade and the prospects of advancing regional economic integration … reveal the existence of significant potential for intra-Africa trade. However, realizing this potential and hence the effort … to advance regional integration through intra-Africa trade is challenged by lack of complementarities of exports and …

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Foreign direct investment, productivity and the technology gap in African economies

Malikane, Christopher; Chitambara, Prosper - In: Journal of African Trade 4 (2017) 1/2, pp. 61-74

This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity conditional on relative …

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Aid for trade and Africa's trade performance: Evidence from bilateral trade flows with China and OECD countries

Lemi, Adugna - In: Journal of African Trade 4 (2017) 1/2, pp. 37-60

aid-recipient countries in Africa. In the absence of formal evaluation guidelines, most previous studies, using aggregate … have increased both Africa's imports from and exports to OECD countries. This finding also holds the various commodity … to Africa have played little role in Africa's trade with China, with infrastructure and economic size of African …

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Trade facilitation and social welfare in Africa

Sakyi, Daniel; Bonuedi, Isaac; Opoku, Eric Evans Osei - In: Journal of African Trade 5 (2018) 1/2, pp. 35-53

contributes to improving social welfare in Africa. To do so, we construct three indices of trade facilitation capturing … efficiency, will likely be associated with improvements of social welfare in Africa. …

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Demand-side determinants of access to healthcare services: Empirical evidence from Africa

Kabongo, Wa Ntita Serge; Mbonigaba, Josue - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 67 (2017) 4, pp. 3-22

The problem of low access to health care services in Africa remains challenging to policy makers whave thus far not … determinants of access to healthcare in Africa aestimates the short-run and long run effects of these determinants. Panel data from … pooled mean group estimators. Income appears the strongest determinant of accein the long run in countries in Africa included …

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Willingness to pay for improved household solid waste collection in Blantyre, Malawi

Ndau, Hanke; Tilley, Elizabeth - In: Economies 6 (2018) 4, pp. 1-21

Insufficient staff, inappropriate collection vehicles, limited operating budgets and growing, hard to reach populations mean that solid waste management remains limited in most developing countries; Malawi is no exception. We estimated the willingness to pay (WTP) for two hypothetical solid...

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