African Journal of Economic and Management Studies: Volume 12 Issue 2

The comparative economics of financial access in gender economic inclusion

Simplice Asongu, Rexon Nting

The study has investigated the comparative importance of financial access in promoting gender inclusion in African countries.

Sustainability responses to climate-smart adaptation in Africa: implication for food security among farm households in the Central Region of Ghana

Samuel Kwesi Ndzebah Dadzie, Emmanuel W. Inkoom, Selorm Akaba, Festus Annor-Frempong, James Afful

The consequences of extreme climatic events that threaten food security have created the urgent need to properly adopt climate-smart adaptation techniques to improve productivity…

Effect of financial technology on cash holding in Nigeria

Emmanuel Onyebuchi Onah, Angela Ifeanyi Ujunwa, Augustine Ujunwa, Oloruntoba Samuel Ogundele

This paper aims to examine the effect of financial technology on cash holding in Nigeria.

Government spending and economic growth: a trivariate causality testing

Olumide Olaoye, Olatunji Afolabi

This paper investigates whether institutional environment influences the relationship government spending and economic growth in ECOWAS over the period 2008–2017.

Environmental risk, FDI and tax reforms: why we must worry

Eric Boachie Yiadom, Lord Mensah

In this paper, we use empirical models to examine the main channel through which FDI escalates environmental risk. We explore whether countries with “weak” or better still low tax…

Economic growth and income inequality: a non-linear econometrics analysis of the SADC region, 1990–2015

Lindokuhle Talent Zungu, Lorraine Greyling, Nkanyiso Mbatha

The authors investigate the growth–inequality relationship, using panel data from 13 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries over the period 1990–2015, to test the…

Policy asymmetries and fiscal sustainability: evidence from Nigeria

Opeoluwa Adeniyi Adeosun, Olumide Steven Ayodele, Olajide Clement Jongbo

This study examines and compares different specifications of the fiscal policy rule in the fiscal sustainability analysis of Nigeria.

Customer loyalty and value anticipation: does perceived competition matter?

Ishmael Ofoli Christian, Thomas Anning-Dorson, Nii Nookwei Tackie

Drawing on customer value theory and the demanding nature of today's customers, this paper examines the moderating effects of competition, as perceived by customers, on the nexus…

Does Eurobond issuance influence FDI location? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Lord Mensah, Eric B. Yiadom, Raymond Dziwornu

Does the issuance of Eurobonds carry enough information about favourable domestic conditions to warrant more FDI inflows? In this study, the authors investigate how FDI is…