January 2023

Cross-border trade and economic growth: An application to Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Morocco, and Nigeria

The objective of this paper is two-fold. On one hand, it seeks to measure the direct effect of cross-border trade on the dynamism of the economies of countries such as Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Morocco and Nigeria from 1971 to 2020. On the other hand, it aims to verify the possibility of establishing a link between the volume of cross-border trade, the dynamics of certain variables (currency, population, income)...

Author(s): Gnoleba Zahoré Martin 

February 2023

Assessment of financial system and economic growth: An empirical evidence from Ghana’s stock market

The importance of a country’s financial system to its economic well-being cannot be underestimated. This paper seeks to investigate whether causation exists between Ghana’s financial system and economic growth. Ghana’s financial system was measured using the efficiency, depth, and stability of the stock market, while economic growth was measured as the Gross Domestic Growth (GDP) per capita growth. The...

Author(s): Samuel Kofi Asiamah

February 2023

Analysis of the impact of renewable energy use on GDP and employment in Angola: An error correction model approach

This paper explores the impact of renewable energy on Angola's GDP and employment. The study used the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and error correction models with data on renewable energy use, gross domestic product, unemployment rate, industry employment, vulnerable employment, labor force participation rate and gross fixed capital formation. This note contributes to the existing literature by...

Author(s): Yacouba TELLY and Xuezhi LIU