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  title info:
    title: Foreign capital inflow, infrastructure and role of institutions on economic growth in ECOWAS countries
  name:
    name part: Hammed Oluwaseyi, Musibau
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
    name part: Faculty of Business and Management
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 234 leaves ; 31 cm.
  abstract: Foreign capital inflow, infrastructure and good institution are significant variables in explaining long run growth in both developed and developing countries of the world. However, capital gap, decay infrastructures and weak institution has been identified as the main bane affecting the process of growth and development in ECOW AS economies. This study examined the impact of foreign capital inflows, infrastructures and the role of institutions on economic growth across ECOWAS -15 nations with the use of a panel and cross-section for the period of 1981-2017. In line with the Augmented Solow Model, the relationship between capital inflows, infrastructures and the role of institutions on economic growth in the ECOW AS member countries are investigated. To achieve the objectives of this study, quantitative method of analysis was used. The m thods employed are dynamic panel data using Panel Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (PDOLS), Pool mean Group (PMG), Generalised Ordinary Least Square (GLS), and panel-corrected standard errors (PCSEs) to test for the long run relationship. Findings from the Dynamic panel models result showed that economic growth in ECOW AS countries are determined by foreign capital inflows, infrastructures, and strong institution similarities, human capital development, domestic investment and exchange rate. However, weak institutional quality and capital flight among the ECOWAS countries in West Africa have been hindering economic growth of ECOWAS economies. On these premises, th tudy suggested that ECOW AS countries must address the issue of decay infrastructures, capital flight and weak institutional structures within their region in order to enhance sustainable growth in ECOWAS economies. Based on these findings, some policy issues were highlighted, and policy recommendations were developed, economic policies should be targeted at providing a strong institution, encouraging foreign capital a cumulation and, human capital development, especially on …
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview -- 3. Theoretical literature review -- 4. Research methodology -- 5. Discussion of results -- 6. The conclusion, summary and policy implication
  note: Musibau Hammed Oluwaseyi
  note: Thesis (Degree of Doctor of Philosophy) - Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, 2020
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-216)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
    topic: Faculty of Business and Management
    genre: Dissertations
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
    topic: Dissertations
  subject:
    topic: Capital
  subject:
    topic: Dissertations, Academic
  subject:
    topic: Economic development
  subject:
    topic: Infrastructure (Economics)
  subject:
    topic: Investments, Foreign
  classification: HG3891 .H36 2020
  record info:
    record content source: UniSZA
    record creation date: 210104
    record change date: 20221213093000.0
    record identifier: 0000099925