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Financial Development and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

European Journal of Sustainable Development

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Title Financial Development and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
 
Creator Ngongang, Elie
 
Description Financial Development is the accumulation of financial assets at a rate that is more rapid than the rate of non-financial assets accumulation. Economic growth is the evolution of gross domestic product (GDP) in the short, medium and long terms. We have attempted in this paper to analyze and to verify empirically the controversy on the relationship between the financial sphere and the real sphere. From the data observed on 21 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and by using the dynamic panel GMM technique, we were able to show that there exists a positive link between financial development and economic growth. This link is intense for the issue of the financial system in the space of Sub-Saharan Africa. However, an outcome highlighting an eventual link between foreign direct investment and economic growth is opportune. Keywords: Real sphere – Financial sphere – Dynamic panel GMM – Sub-Saharan Africa. 
 
Publisher European Center of Sustainable Development
 
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Date 2015-06-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://www.ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/271
10.14207/ejsd.2015.v4n2p369
 
Source European Journal of Sustainable Development; Vol 4, No 2; 369-378
2239-6101
2239-5938
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/271/262
 
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