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An empirical assessment of fintechs heterogeneous transmission channels to financial development among African economies

Okoli, Tochukwu Timothy; Tewari, Devi D. - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-18

The poor use of innovations for financial service delivery among African banks has limited the extent of financial development in the continent. Consequently, financial authorities seeks for a technology-enabled financial solution; an area not well covered in literature. This study therefore,...

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A simple framework for analysing the impact of economic growth on non-communicable diseases

Cohen, Ivan K.; Ferretti, Fabrizio; McIntosh, Bryan - In: Cogent economics & finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-10

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are currently the leading cause of death worldwide. In this paper, we examine the channels through which economic growth affects NCDs' epidemiology. Following a production function approach, we develop a basic technique to break up the impact of economic growth...

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The nonlinear impact of government consumption expenditure on economic growth : evidence from low and low-middle income countries

Hajamini, Mehdi; Falahi, Mohammad Ali - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-15

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of government consumption expenditure as a share of GDP on economic growth in developing countries. The paper uses threshold panel model to examine nonlinear relationship between the government consumption expenditure share and economic...

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Does infrastructural absorptive capacity stimulate FDI-growth nexus in ECOWAS?

Ogundipe, Adeyemi A.; Oye, Queen Esther; Ogundipe, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19

The study assesses the relevance of infrastructural absorptive capacity in the foreign direct investment (FDI)-growth argument in ECOWAS. Though foreign aid has received a vast attention in the literature, however, an assessment of how the infrastructural readiness of the host economies drives...

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Foreign aid, poverty and economic growth in developing countries : a dynamic panel data causality analysis

Mahembe, Edmore; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-17

This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing countries for the period 1981–2013. Taking advantage of the recently developed dynamic panel data estimation techniques, the paper tests for both panel unit roots and cointegration...

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The impact of financial liberalization on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Akinsola, Foluso A.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-11

special role of financial liberalization and banking crises on economic growth in SSA. The linear generalized method of … also show that there is a negative relationship between a banking crisis and economic growth, showing that the period of a … banking crisis can drastically affect economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Considering the crucial role played by most …

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Effect of economic growth on CO2 emission in developing countries : evidence from a dynamic panel threshold model

Aye, Goodness C.; Edoja, Prosper Ebruvwiyo - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-22

This study investigated the effect of economic growth on CO2 emission using the dynamic panel threshold framework. The analysis is based on data from a panel of 31 developing countries. The results indicate that economic growth has negative effect on CO2 emission in the low growth regime but...

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Exchange rate misalignment and economic growth : on the possible transmission channels for emerging economies

Tipoy, Christian K.; Breitenbach, Marthinus C.; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-18

Despite the large body of work that exists on the impact of exchange rate undervaluation on economic growth, only a mere literature focuses on the potential transmission mechanisms. There are authors who consider the size of the tradable sector as the operative channel through which...

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The triangular relationship between energy consumption, trade openness and economic growth : new empirical evidence

Bonsu, Mandella Osei Assibey; Wang, Ying - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19

Our paper examines the triangular relationships between energy consumption, trade openness and economic growth of 45 countries from 1991 to 2014 using dynamic seemingly unrelated regression (DSUR) models. We confirm a bidirectional relationship among energy consumption and income, trade openness...

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A vector autoregression (VAR) analysis of corruption, economic growth, and foreign direct investment in Ghana

Nsor-Ambala, Randolph; Anarfo, Ebenezer Bugri - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-18

The paper investigated the dynamic and causal relationship among corruption, foreign direct investment, and economic growth simultaneously, a largely overlooked area in empirical studies, using a dataset from Ghana. It is among the few studies that explore the confluence of these variables and...

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