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Does Participating in Agricultural Global Value Chains Promote Agricultural Growth?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between GVC participation and agricultural value‐added growth in 43 countries over the period 1995–2022. In contrast to prior literature, we disaggregate the agricultural sector into four sub‐sectors namely crop cultivation, animal production, forestry and fishing.
Taner Turan, Halit Yanıkkaya, Hüseyin Alperen Özer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How did African stock markets react to the Russia-Ukraine crisis “black-swan” event? Empirical insights from event study

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study builds on the recent literature by investigating how various types of African stock markets responded to the Russia-Ukraine crisis (commonly referred to as the black-swan event). The empirical analysis used in this paper centred on event study
Olajide O. Oyadeyi, Sodiq Arogundade, Mduduzi Biyase   +2 more
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Methodological insights regarding the impact of COVID-19 dataset on stock market performance in African countries: A computational analysis

Journal of Amasya University the Institute of Sciences and Technology
This research aims to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock markets in Africa. The study analyzes the stock market returns in nine selected African countries (South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Botswana, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Mauritius ...
Rhoda Ifeanyi Benson, Morufu Oyedunsi Olayiwola, Lateef Olakunle Moshood, Kabiru Oyeleye Kareem, Kamiludeen Rotimi Tijani, Muideen Odunayo Ogunniran   +5 more
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Are African Stock Markets Inefficient? New Evidence on Seasonal Anomalies

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2018
It is widely acknowledged that having efficient financial markets is paramount in the allocation of social resources to their most productive uses. This paper explores the informational efficiency of six of the most important African stock markets for ...
Lobão Júlio
doaj   +1 more source

Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman, Thomas L. Marsh   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Adaptive Market Hypothesis and the Day‑of‑the‑Week Effect in African Stock Markets: the Markov Switching Model

Comparative Economic Research, 2019
In line with the Adaptive Market Hypothesis (AMH), the objective of this study is to investigate how the day‑of‑the‑week (DOW) effect behaves under different bull and bear market conditions in African stock markets, and to examine the likelihood of being
Adefemi A. Obalade, Paul Francois Muzindutsi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Day of the week seasonality in African stock markets [PDF]

Applied Financial Economics Letters, 2008
This article investigates the day of the week anomaly in Africa's largest stock markets by looking at both the first and second moments of returns. We also incorporate market risk. We do not find day of the week effect in Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Tunisia. However, there are significant daily seasonality in Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa.
openaire   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy and Stock Market Performance in African Countries [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Purpose – This paper assesses the incidence of political institutions on stock market performance dynamics in Africa. Design/Methodology/Approach – The estimation technique used is a Two-Stage-Least Squares Instrumental Variable methodology. Channels of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with legal-origins, religious-legacies, income ...
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