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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"SSA countries"”.
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Public debt in sub-Saharan African countries: determinants and economic effects
… have looked at the case of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. This is despite the fact that many countries in the sub-region have been through debt crises in previous decades and are currently facing the imminence of another crisis. This thesis extends the public debt literature by examining …
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Determinants of sovereign borrowing choices in Sub-Saharan Africa
… levels among the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Understanding the determinants of external debt to these countries influenced the direction of this study. The existing literature that was examined shed light mostly on the qualitative determinants of sovereign borrowing. In …
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Legal challenges of cross-border insolvencies in sub-saharan Africa with reference to Tanzania and Kenya: a framework for legislation and policies
… a perspective from most of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries is lacking. This study addresses this perspective. It makes an in-depth examination and discussion of the challenges that SSA countries face in reform and application of cross-border insolvency law given the ever-growing multinational …
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A Multi-tiered Framework for Renewable Energy Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
… of power access is found in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Just 23 SSA countries had an electrical availability rate higher than 50% as of 2022. Only 10 of the 49 SSA countries have given more than 50% of their rural household access to electricity, even though 54.1% of SSA population still lives in …
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Legal Challenges of Cross-Border Insolvencies in Sub-Saharan Africa with Reference to Tanzania and Kenya: A Framework for Legislation and Policies
… a perspective from most of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries is lacking. This study addresses this perspective. It makes an in-depth examination and discussion of the challenges that SSA countries face in reform and application of cross-border insolvency law given the ever-growing multinational …
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Financial liberalisation and banking crises in sub-Saharan Africa
… on the stability of banking sectors in selected countries in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The study is motivated by theoretical emphasis on the competing in uence of financial liberalisation in fostering financial development, but also giving rise to financial systems that are more vulnerable to …
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The impact of domestic savings, financial depth, and financial innovation on economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries
… on economic growth in the Sub Saharan African (SSA) countries. This paper examines at what point do excessive domestic savings have detrimental effects on economic growth and in which cases can domestic savings be classified as excessive domestic savings. The dynamic panel threshold model is …
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Determinants of foreign direct investment into sub-saharan Africa and its impact on economic growth.
… direct investment (FDI) into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This further to investigate how SSA countries compare in their FDI determinants with other countries from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). These are the two least recipient regions of global FDI. The second objective is to examine the …
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The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Labor Market Measures: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
… labor market measures in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. This paper explores the effect of FDI on the labor market measures using panel data of 48 Sub-Saharan African Countries from 1991 to 2009. The result indicates that FDI has a positive and significant effect on employment implying …
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Financial structure, economic growth and firm productivity in Sub Saharan Africa
… a particularly important issue for developing countries, as choosing the wrong financial structure can hold back growth and development. The existing literature tends to focus on developed countries, however, with only a few studies considering developing countries or regions. Even fewer …
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Catalytic effects of IMF agreements on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in sub-Saharan Africa
… or arrangements in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will facilitate foreign capital investments or FDI inflows from multinational corporations and or foreign investors. Through empirical observations, and using a two-stage modelling technique, this research tested and examined this hypothesis. …
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Resource-for-Infrastructure Investment agreements between resource-rich Sub-Saharan African Countries and corporate developers : a cooperative pursuit of mutual interest poisoned chalice?
… and also creates jobs. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is generally behind most developing regions on most standard indicators of infrastructure development. Lack of infrastructure is one of the major obstacles to sustaining poverty alleviation in this region, though the region is abundantly rich …
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Financial development, foreign direct investment and economic growth : challenges for developing countries
Although the pattern of growth in developing countries is characterised by instability, uncertainties and volatility, the experience of the five fast-growing developing economies of Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico and China (BRIMCs) presents an unprecedented challenge for other developing countries. …
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The relationship between infrastructure and foreign investment inflows to South Africa
… major source of external capital for developing countries in Asia, South and Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa. However, Sub-Saharan Africa's share of global FDI compares unfavourably with that garnered by other developing regions in the world. Until recently, South Africa has been the top …
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SSA's Development Delay: Three Essays on The Monetary System, The International Trade and Property Rights
… of economic performances in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It includes three essays on the monetary system, the international trade and property rights.;The first chapter discusses the inflation dynamics across different exchange rate regime groups in SSA. In particular, a comparative analysis is …
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Commodity Prices, Exchange Rate Fluctuation and Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Investigation
… on the capacity of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to attain the UN 2030 agenda on sustainable development by using the dynamic panel data of forty-five (45) countries in Sub-Saharan Africa over a twenty-year timeframe (1999–2018). The study used the commodity terms of the trade index …
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An application of Solow's growth model: Case of sub-Saharan Africa
… poor economic performance of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) relative to the rest of the world over the past decade. The purpose of the study is to examine how a simple and predictable model like Solow's model can explain per capita income in SSA. Our study consists of cross-sectional-cum-time-series …
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Green, Clean, and Mean? China’s Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa Economy
… environment and economy of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In evaluating this impact, 43 SSA countries were analyzed and subdivided into various income levels; three arguments were proposed and tested.First is China’s FDI in SSA, “green.” Does China’s FDI lead to sustainable growth and development for …
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Relationship between socioeconomic status and HIV in women of reproductive age in Free State and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa
… general pattern and is consistent in developed countries but not in sub-Saharan African [SSA] countries. In SSA, observed patterns include; direct, inverse, lack of association and, dynamic association where the relationship changes over time. In general, literature shows that the relationship …
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