Nafisat Olawunmi Olabisi

University of Leeds · Leeds University Business School

This paper examines whether technology and energy have a role to play in agriculture value addition in nine sub-Saharan African countries for a sample period between 1981 and 2015. We employ the Autoregressive Distributed Lag modelling technique to examine the relationship among the variables. Models with technology, energy use, and a combination o...

This study investigates the role of governance in the resource mobilization-inclusive growth relationship. We explore the difference Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation technique to examine this relationship in 27 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1995–2015. This study uses aggregate tax and disaggregated taxes to capture dome...

This study examines the role of asymmetry and breaks in oil price–output growth volatility nexus. A representative of 10 countries was selected from net oil‐exporting and‐importing economies for the period 1986–2017. It is hypothesised that countries respond differently to changes in oil price. To prove this point, we use the recent nonlinear ARDL...

This study sets out to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth in Nigeria, between 1985 and 2011. Given the peculiar resource-based structure of the Nigerian economy, the study also focused on identifying the key determinants of FDI flows to Nigeria. The methodology adopted in this study was influenced by prevalent ec...