... diversification Export quality Sub-Saharan Africa C33 O11 O13 O55 The nations of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are currently grappling with significant external shocks, including the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russia–Ukraine war and escalating conflicts in the Middle East...

... Panel data PCA System GMM C33 O11 O43 O55 Despite its abundant natural resources and decades of foreign aid, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is home to the highest number of poor countries in the world. Out of the 48 countries in the region, 24 are low-income, with a GNI (Gross National...

... manner as did COVID-19 more recently. Originality/value This is the first paper to explore the fiscal side of this type of health-related shocks, as most of the literature has focused on the more traditional macroeconomic effects. C33 C36 E32 E62 H20 The COVID-19 pandemic cost lives...

... C33 E44 Financial institution efficiency Inflation uncertainty Macroeconomic risk Pooled ordinary least squares (POLS) Driscoll and Kraay (1998) standard errors © Rexford Abaidoo and Elvis Kwame Agyapong 2023 Rexford Abaidoo and Elvis Kwame Agyapong Published in the Journal...

.../licences/by/4.0/legalcode Household welfare Preferential credit Barriers Panel data Fixed effects Vietnam B23 C23 C33 C83 D10 I31 P36 There are multiple factors that can contribute to household welfare, hence to poverty. Among those, the constraint to access to credit...

... of this license may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Infrastructure development Industrial sector productivity Sub-Saharan Africa Panel least square estimation H54 D24 O55 C33 Development economists have considered physical infrastructure...