Abstracts

Volume 9 – Issue 2

FDI inflows spillover effect implications on the Asian-Pacific’s catching up process – Elsadig Musa Ahmed and Rahim Kialashaki

Enhancing ICT for insurance in Africa – Simplice A. Asongu and Nicholas M. Odhiambo

Does bank competition spur economic growth? Evidence from West African countries – Oludele Folarin

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Volume 9 – Issue 1

An ethical barrier to Japanese funding of microfinance institutions in developing countries – Takashi Ishida and Mototsugu Fukushige

Stock returns-inflation nexus in Africa during tranquil and crisis periods: new evidence – Afees A. Salisu, Samuel F. Onipede, and Wasiu Adekunle

Flows to emerging market and developing economies – global liquidity and uncertainty versus country-specific pull factors – Ansgar Belke and Ulrich Volz

Wagner and the fading voracity effect: short vs. long-run effects in developing countries – João Tovar Jalles

Central bank independence and economic welfare in Africa: do institutional quality and levels of central bank independence matter? – Baah Aye Kusi, Obed Anann Nortey, and Gloria Clarissa Dzeha