... 2025 15 11 2025 08 12 2025 O33 F63 Q33 O43 O55 C33 Kafilah Lola Gold can be contacted at: kgold@uj.ac.za Figure 1 Map of Africa indicating landlocked countries. Source: Authors’ creation with mapchart.net A map of Africa shows landlocked countries in yellow...

... re-use rights only Monetary policy Oil price Terms of trade Economic performance Non-WAEMU E51 E52 E58 E59 O55 There are ongoing debates about the effectiveness of monetary policy in both developed and developing countries as apparent in a recent survey of the literature...

... O41 O55 In order to check for consistency in estimation results, the ARDL model is specified to complement the GMM model. The ARDL eliminates serial correlation and endogeneity by relating capital market development to its own lag and the lags of independent variables. This is different...

... the role of traditional institutions and their interaction with FinTech. FinTech Financial development SADC Generalized method of moments (GMM) Traditional banks B16 F65 O55 The financial services environment across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region has...

... innovation R&D Synergy effect J21 M51 O15 O33 O55 Innovation relies on many factors, including the state of knowledge, individual creativity, public policy, economic institutions, and social norms (Sohn and Jung, 2010 ; von Graevenitz et al., 2016). Previous studies...

... increasing penetration levels of ICT affect female economic inclusion and by extension, thresholds necessary for the promotion of ICT to increase female economic inclusion. G20 I10 I32 O40 O55 The premise of information and communication technology (hence ICT) in the engagement of the female...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Economic growth Nigeria Credit supply GDP growth rate GDP per capita Abnormal credit supply Rule of law ZSCORE Profitability Domestic credit to the private sector Central bank asset G21 G28 O47 O55 The rest...

... 27 06 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Development aid Development finance Economic growth Developing countries E51 F65 F43 O55 The slow economic growth in developing countries, over several decades...

... development Africa I30 L96 O16 O55 Engaging women in the formal economic sector could add about 28 trillion USD to global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025 (Abney and Laya, 2018). According to the narrative, greater gender equality offers a multitude of socio-economic benefits for women...

..., exclusively devoted to Africa, De Vries et al. (2015) show that the sectors to which labour has been reallocated in sub-Saharan Africa are generally sectors showing a decline in productivity. Structural transformation Aggregate productivity Shift-share C10 O11 O55 J21 Labour...

... development G20 I10 I32 O40 O55 The relationship between inequality and gender inclusion is motivated by three fundamental factors in the scholarly and policy literature, notably: the importance of involving women in the formal economic sector; the relevance of inclusive development...

... Entrepreneurship Doing business Inclusive development M20 I30 O10 O30 O55 This study is motivated by three main strands in contemporary development literature, namely: a burgeoning population and need to accommodate the corresponding rising unemployment, growing exclusive development in Sub...

... abroad. The motivation for investigating the effect of reducing information asymmetry on financial dollarisation [1] in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is threefold, notably: dollarisation is a policy syndrome; the uniqueness of SSA and gaps in the literature. E31 E41 G20 O16 O55 Africa...

... of the values. Table AII presents simple averages of the variables involved in the analysis. Inequality Mobility Economic growth Cameroon Income poverty Non-income poverty Sector of employment O11 O15 O55 P23 In recent times, the drive to eradicate extreme poverty in developing...