
SECURITIES MARKETS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL INTEGRATION IN AFRICA: RISK AND POLICY OPTIONS
Research Papers
The need to develop securities market has following the recent international financial crises increasingly attracted the attention of national and international policy makers. Never before [...]

MODEL APPROACHING ECONOMIC FLUCTUATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA A VECTOR AUTO-REGRESSIVE
Research Papers
For most of the twentieth century, especially since the great depression, most macroeconomists have looked upon the sharp fluctuations in output and unemployment as prima [...]

A VIRTUAL DYNAMIC APPLIED GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF AFRICA: SPECIFICATIONS AND SIMULATIONS
Research Papers
African economic performance has been markedly worse than that of other regions. Thus, the governments of African countries have assumed major responsibilities for economic reforms [...]
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTIVITY PARADOX: EMERGING EVIDENCE FROM THE AFRICAN ECONOMIES
Research Papers
Technological progress is considered a source of growth and productivity gains for national economies. Thus, understanding the factors that determine the diffusion of new technologies [...]

SOLVING THE POVERTY CRISIS IN NIGERIA: AN APPLIED GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH
Research Papers
Poverty amid plenty is the world's greatest challenge. This study proposes an applied (computable) general equilibrium approach that is a re-new attention to the problem [...]