Do financial development, foreign direct investment, and economic growth enhance industrial development? Fresh evidence from Sub-Sahara African countries

Michael Appiah (), Bright Akwasi Gyamfi (), Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo () and Festus Bekun
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Michael Appiah: Jiangsu University
Bright Akwasi Gyamfi: İstanbul Ticaret University
Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo: Cyprus International University

Portuguese Economic Journal, 2023, vol. 22, issue 2, No 3, 203-227

Abstract: Abstract This study investigates the impact of financial development, economic growth, and foreign direct investment on enhancing industrial growth for a panel of selected Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries from 1990—2017. However, the present study enriches our understanding of financial development by employing a new comprehensive index focused on the accessibility, scope, and productivity of capital systems and banking institutions and incorporated foreign direct investment and economic growth as significant industrial growth drivers in the selected countries. A more robust technique Augmented Mean Group (AMG) and Common Correlated Effect Mean Group (CCEMG), were employed to access the long-run relationship among the understudy variables. Further empirical results shows that financial development and economic growth enhance industrial development with finance exhibiting signifcance while foreign direct investment is seen as adverse. Moreover, a two-way causality was obtained between industrialization and financial development while both foreign direct investment and economic growth had a one-way causality relationship with industrialization. Thus, our study implies that the government officials within these countries must provide a suitable environment for the public, private partnerships, i.e. private sector, which is the backbone for industrial development.

Keywords: Financial development; Foreign development investment; Economic growth; Industrialization; Panel econometrics; Sub-Sahara African countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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