Finance is the fuel of economic growth. Yet, the same fuel, when excessive and triggered by
a shock of flame, can engender an economic crisis. For decades, the economics literature …

Using an innovative threshold estimation technique, this study examines whether the growth
effect of financial development in countries with distinct levels of institutional development …

Financial development, human capital and its impact on economic growth of emerging countries
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This study examines the relation between private capital flows and economic growth in
Africa during the period 1990–2007. We estimate the empirical relation with a panel …

A likely image of the current state of the literature on financial sector development is that of a
Swiss cheese with many holes inside important areas of knowledge. The aim of this …

We empirically investigate the impacts of central government debt and local government
debt on corporate debt in the Chinese domestic financial market during 2008–2019. We find …

This paper introduces a new set of financial access indicators for 139 countries across the
globe and describes the results of a preliminary analysis of this data set. The new data set …

This study scrutinises the role of institutional quality in the linkage of financial development
and economic growth in 21 Middle East and North African (MENA) countries. Using the …

Background One of the key functions of health insurance is to provide financial protection
against high costs of health care, yet evidence of such protection from developing countries …

We show that the development of city commercial banks (CCBs) across China has alleviated
the constraints from China's domestic financial-market inefficiency on the export activity of …