Can foreign direct investment (FDI) promote growth in Africa? What does the inflow of investment hold for African … implication of FDI for different regional blocs in Africa. FDI was found to have a significant effect on growth in North Africa … but had no significant effect in East, Southern and West Africa. FDI was also found not to be driving growth in the whole …

Has macroeconomic management succeeded in making privatization promote growth in Africa? What are the probable … strategies that should accompany the privatization reform process to promote growth in Africa? To what extent has the … the success of the privatization reform process. It was also found that privatization was not promoting growth in Africa …

growth as it “opens up” is contingent upon its own peculiarities …

services on growth. Causality analysis is performed with seven financial development and three growth indicators in the …

indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates …, while human development supports the exogenous growth model and rejects the endogenous theory, its income component suggests …

Long-term growth in developing countries has been explained in four frameworks: ‘extractive colonial institutions …, contra Acemoglu et al., (2001). Further, we find that instrumented human capital explains long-term growth better, and shows … the disease environment on African long-term growth runs through a human capital channel rather than an extractive …

This paper deals with the effects of telecommunications on the economic growth in African countries. The … investigate empirically the role of telecommunication infrastructures on long-run economic growth in 40 African countries, for the … significant and positive correlation between telecommunication infrastructures and regional growth in Africa, after controlling …