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SSA countries that open and restrict banking industries to foreign ownership using descriptive analysis. The descriptive … evidence suggests that SSA countries that allowed foreign bank entry have better banking service access, competition and depth … than SSA countries that restrict banking industries to foreign ownership. Econometric estimation result shows a foreign …
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(SSA) countries. The study is motivated by the persistent state of underdevelopment of the manufacturing sector in the …
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countries in these regions, especially sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), rely on donor grants and loans to finance health care. Such … in SSA. Fixed and random effects panel data regression models were fitted to determine the effects of health care …
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fintechs have in closing the gender gap of financial inclusion in SubSaharan Africa (SSA) over the period 2011-2017. The …
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) emissions) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), largely overlooked in the literature. In addition to pre-estimation, diagnostic and … examine annual data from 39 SSA economies between 2005 and 2018. The key findings indicate that public debt negatively … environmental sustainability. The study provides recommendations for SSA policymakers to significantly reduce pollution and protect …
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Agricultural productivity remains pivotal to the sustenance of the economies and livelihoods of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA … understanding the link among energy poverty, environmental degradation and agricultural productivity in 35 SSA nations in particular … (IV‐GMM) technique was implemented for the aggregate SSA model, while the IV-two stage least square technique was adopted …
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In the wake of the current financial and economic crises, the economies of sub-Saharan Africa find themselves squeezed between likely reductions in official development assistance and the pressing challenge to eradicate poverty. Public expenditure allocation to the social sector and to public...
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Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The non-parametric analyses indicate that developing countries that are more open to … open. However, for SSA countries the non-parametric test shows that countries that are more open to trade have less … long term are even stronger for SSA countries. With regard to trade intensity, the parametric estimations also confirm the …
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This study examines the dynamic impact of tourism development on economic growth in subSaharan Africa (SSA) using the … nexus studies in Africa in general and in SSA in particular, motivated this study. Unlike most of the known panel data … economic growth while tourism receipts have the opposite effect in SSA. The findings are robust to the low-income sub …
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With recent changes in the global economy, policy makers are increasingly turning from global value chains to regional and national value chains as drivers of structural transformation in the global South. This paper examines economic and social upgrading in the Tanzanian textile and apparel...
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