The current research empirically analyses the determinants of financial inclusion (FI) for BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations using no. depositors Automated Teller Machines/user as dependent variables, a proxy FI from 2004 to 2019. study employs fixed-effect, cross-section random-effect simple panel least square techniques determine different countries. empirical find...

Maximizing science achievement is a critical target of educational policy and has important implications for national and international economic and technological competitiveness. Previous research has identified both science interest and socioeconomic status (SES) as robust predictors of science achievement, but little research has examined their joint effects. In a data set drawn from approxi...

This paper examines the impact of financial deepening on economic growth in Nigeria from 1982 – 2019. The objective study is to look at credit private sector, money supply and gross domestic savings Nigeria. Secondary data were collected based model used research work unit root test was conducted their stationary, after which we perform co-integration analyze long run relationship among variabl...

The health status of the African population remains behind that of populations in Europe and North America, as well as many other developing regions with similar affluence (Figure S1). For example, Africa is especially affected by a series of infectious diseases that are responsible for more than half of its disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and over 6 million deaths per year (Figure S2). ...

In 2013 health spending growth is expected to have remained slow, at 3.6 percent, as a result of the sluggish economic recovery, the effects of sequestration, and continued increases in private health insurance cost-sharing requirements. The combined effects of the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansions, faster economic growth, and population aging are expected to fuel health spending growth...

This paper empirically examined the relationship between monetary policy and private sector credit in Southern African Development Community (SADC) group of countries using a panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) co-integration technique for period from 2009 to 2018. The Hausman test result indicated that null hypothesis long-run homogeneity cannot be rejected hence we accept pooled mean ...

Background: In Burkina Faso, the agricultural sector accounts for 35% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 82% of the active population. The agri-food industries must apply the requirements of the management systems to improve their economic position and ensure sustainable development. The present study aimed to highlight the similarities and particularities of these repositories gro...

This paper examines the impact of government expenditure on the Nigerian economy for the period 1983 - 2012. The government expenditure components used as the explanatory variables in the model are: expenditures on Health, Education, Defense, Agriculture and Transportation and Communication. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was used as a parameter for measuring economic growth. In order to esta...

The choice of free parameters in network models is subjective, since it depends on what topological properties are being monitored. However, we show that the maximum likelihood (ML) principle indicates a unique, statistically rigorous parameter choice, associated with a well-defined topological feature. We then find that, if the ML condition is incompatible with the built-in parameter choice, n...