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Digital financial inclusion and income inequality in WAEMU: What causality for what heterogeneity?
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 In developing countries, economic inequality is attracting considerable attention. Many factors including financial exclusion are key in explaining income gap in developing countries. This paper examines the effect of access to financial services through
Kolotioloman Soro, Melain Modeste Senou
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Public expenditure and economic growth in WAEMU countries
, 2023 The objective of this study is to assess the effect of public expenditure on economic growth in WAEMU countries. Using a sample of seven (07) countries, we estimate the model of the effect of public spending on economic growth using the dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) estimator over the period 1990-2020.
ANAGONOU, Ernest +1 more
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The EU Minimum Tax Directive—A conceptual discussion of a bold policy move
European Law Journal, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 653-667, December 2024.Abstract The century old international tax system is in the middle of being rebuilt. In the ongoing multilateral efforts to reform international taxation to better accord with the challenges imposed by digitalisation and globalisation, the EU has taken in very active role.
Moritz Scherleitner
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Sustainable Development, Volume 32, Issue 5, Page 4606-4632, October 2024.Abstract Youth unemployment is major policy concern in Senegal. The country has in recent years, implemented several programs to combat unemployment and the precariousness of youth employment in the labor market. However, the results of these programs are to date hardly perceptible.
André D. Tsambou +3 more
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Impact of monetary policy transmission mechanism in West African countries
Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice, 2022 The study analyzed the impact of monetary policy shocks on economic growth in 12 countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), using quarterly data from 1980(1) to 2017(4).
Famoroti Jonathan Olusegun +1 more
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Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 779-805, July 2024.Abstract We examine the nexus between financial inclusion and inflation targeting monetary policy effectiveness in West African Economic and Monetary Union countries by employing a heterogenous panel approach that enables us to delineate the responses to policy innovations related to idiosyncratic country‐specific shocks, common shocks, and composite ...
Jeleta Kebede +2 more
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African economic integration and trade
The World Economy, Volume 47, Issue 5, Page 2122-2146, May 2024.Abstract Economic integration ranks as one of the leading development strategies in Africa. The newly created African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the proposed Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) linking three major regional blocks offer a new impetus to studying trade policy effects.
Marie M. Stack +2 more
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What type of central banker dampens the political business cycle? The case of Africa
International Journal of Finance &Economics, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 1920-1946, April 2024.Abstract This article investigates the extent to which central bank independence can help to reduce political business cycles in Africa. Like previous studies, we find evidence of political cycles in our sample of 34 African countries for the period 1980–2018, but our findings show that politicians' ability to manipulate both fiscal and monetary policy
Christine Strong
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Foundations of community territorial planning policy of WAEMU
International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies, 2022 After the independences, some West African countries opted to unite within the framework of regional integration to face the multiple problems of their development. It is in this perspective that the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has been created in 1994.
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