...Innocent Ogbonnaya Unah; Abeeb Olatunde Olaniran; Lukman Abisoye Lasisi Purpose This study investigates the linear and nonlinear effects of financial development on trade openness in Sub-Saharan Africa. Design/methodology/approach This study focuses on SSA and its sub-regions over the period...

... Licensed re-use rights only Sustainable trade development Capital mobility Financial development sub-Saharan Africa GMM-PVAR Climate change is a major global economic challenge due to rising carbon dioxide emissions. In 2021, global CO2 emissions reached an all-time high of 36.3 billion...

... methods is ongoing. Sean Gossel can be contacted at: sj.gossel@uct.ac.za 14 10 2022 23 06 2023 21 09 2023 05 12 2023 18 12 2023 13 02 2024 Democracy Credit rating Sub-Saharan Africa Political rights Civil liberties In addition, it is possible...

...Issahaku Haruna; Charles Godfred Ackah Purpose Africa's business environment (BE) is characteristically unfriendly and poses severe development challenges. This study evaluates the impact of business climate on productivity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology/approach Macroeconomic...

...Olumide Olaoye; Segun Thompson Bolarinwa; Muhammad Yaseen Purpose The paper contributes to the literature on investment and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Specifically, the study examined the separate role of private and public investment in poverty reduction in a panel of 40 sub-Saharan...

... panel threshold regression Sub-Saharan Africa C23 E51 E58 Most countries, including the ones in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), have been facing pressure to increase the stringency of bank regulation since the aftermath of the 2007–2008 global financial crisis. Nevertheless, studies have...

...Godwin Okafor; Camilo Calderon Purpose This paper investigates the relationship between terrorism and firm financial performance in Nigeria. The country has become one of the riskiest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa due to the intensity of recent terror attacks. Also, there is a growing focus...

... investment Agricultural sector Manufacturing sector Service sector Sub-Saharan Africa E23 F21 F30 F43 O55 The study is motivated by two major factors in scholarly and policy-making circles: (1) debates and (2) gaps in the literature. The points are substantiated in chronological order...

...Sean Gossel Purpose This paper investigates whether democracy plays a mediating role in the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis is conducted using fixed effects and system GMM...

..., there is surprisingly little evidence of the drivers of the lending behavior of microfinance institutions. Hence, the purpose of this study is to identify the factors that influence the credit growth of MFIs in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology/approach The study relies on unbalanced panel dataset of 130...

... Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only 17 02 2019 17 07 2019 31 12 2019 23 02 2020 13 04 2020 20 04 2020 Stock markets Sub-Saharan Africa Uncovered interest rate parity Financial markets are critical to economic...

... to attract the attention of researchers. As a result, this study will complement related extant growth studies, especially in the case of SSA. Sub-Saharan Africa Economic growth Panel ARDL Concessionality Fosu (1996) stresses that economic disequilibrium in a developing country is socially...

...Chimwemwe Chipeta; Chera Deressa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of firm- and country-specific factors on the dynamics of capital structure for a new data set of firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Design/methodology/approach Panel data estimation techniques are carried...