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The Export-Led Growth Hypothesis and the Resource-Curse Scenario in 14 Oil-Producing SSA Countries: Evidence from Panel Decomposition Approach
(Covenant University, 2021-06)
International trade theorists provide some mechanisms through which trade could be used as a driver of economic growth but nations of the world show different dispositions to these causing variations in economic growth. ...
Modeling the Determinants of Private health Spending across Sub-Suharan African Countries: A Macro Level Study
(The International Islamic University Malaysia, 2021)
Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries faced huge health financing burden as out–of–pocket health spending remains the primary source of financing healthcare in the region. The region has experienced rising healthcare costs, ...
Does Financial Deepening Cause Economic Growth? Evidence from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
(University of Calabar, 2019)
Deeper financial systems have long been associated with economic growth in economics literature. The financial sector is seen as the central nervous system of any economy, hence its importance in the economic development ...
Bank Credit, Industrial Sector and the Nigerian Economy: A VAR Approach
(Lafia Journal of Economics and Management, 2019)
Industrial output and economic growth in Nigeria has been lackluster and efforts have been geared towards stimulating the industrial sector with a view to accelerating economic growth. Bank credit and government expenditure ...
External Debt and Economic Growth in Nigeria: Is there a Debt Laffer Curve?
(Dutse Journal of Economics and Development Studies (DUJEDS), 2018)
The primary objective of this paper is to test the hypothesis that a debt Laffer curve exists for the Nigerian economy. A debt Laffer curve is a smooth inverted U shaped parabolic function showing a non-linear relationship ...
The Nexus of Government Spending, Price, Output, and Money in the ECOWAS Sub-Region: Evidence from Panel ARDL and Causality Approach
(Economics and Business, 2021)
The question of how macroeconomic variables dynamically interact is very crucial in any broad-based economic integration aiming at expanding economic growth and living standard in any human society. This study examined the ...
Financial Deepening and Economic Growth in Nigeria: An Empirical Analysis
(Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, 2018-11)
The importance of financial deepening in economic growth has long been recognised in economics literature. The financial sector is seen as the central nervous system of any economy, hence its importance in the economic ...
International Development Assistance and Educational Development in ECOWAS
(DUTSE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, 2018)
The World Bank puts the number of poor persons in Africa, based on the international poverty line of US$1.90 per person per day, 2013 at 389 million, a figure that is more than the number of poor persons in all other regions ...
Openness, Government Expenditure and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
(JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIES (DUJEDS), 2018)
This study investigated the dynamic relationship among government spending, trade openness and economic growth in some selected sub-Saharan African countries; covering a period of 1980 to 2015 with an annual data. The ...
Health Financing Progress Matrix-NIGERIA
(2021)
The paper was presented during the WHO-Advanced Course on Health Financing for UHC 2021
Geneva, Switzerland March 1st –March 23rd 2021.