... B26 O3 O55 Q55 The importance of financial inclusion has been buttressed in both theoretical and empirical literature (see Aracil et al., 2022 ; Olaoye and Zerihun, 2023). These authors argue that deepening financial inclusion may be crucial to the actualization of the 2030...

... development Africa F43 G2 L86 O55 From Figure 1 , all the five indicators of digitalization have increased in the last two decades. Specifically, in Chart 1 , fixed broadband has picked up and has been increasing steadily largely from around 2004 to 2020. The curve for international bandwidth...

... E23 F21 F30 F43 O55 (3) Studies of FDI have been oriented towards FDI and regional income convergence (Dunne and Masiyandima, 2017); the role of global sector influence on sector portfolios in Africa (Boamah, 2017); connections among bonds, equity, institutional debt and economic...

... mediates how FDI explains the variations in economic growth across African countries. The authors fill this research gap. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only FDI Economic growth Economic freedom Threshold Africa F36 F43 O47 O55...

... Sustainable development Poverty Spatial and temporal dependence Negative spillover Multidimensional poverty Economic shrinking hypothesis O1 O4 O11 O55 Although, recent evidence suggests that Sub-Saharan Africa has improved significantly since 2015, on the average sustainable development...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Government expenditure Population age structure Panel fully modified OLS Africa Asia H50 O53 O55 P42 There is already a large volume of the literature that has widely acknowledged that increase in the population of a country has a positive...

... ] to estimate (equation 2). Adopting Shin et al. (2014) and modifying to incorporate the study variables, an asymmetric model of equation (2) is depicted as: E22 E62 H54 O55 Investment Private sector performance Nonlinearity Nigeria Public sector investments have been...