Departing from previous studies, this paper investigates the impact of corporate board
diversity on corporate performance and executive pay within the context of Middle East and …

The study aims to shed new lights on the lead-lag relationships between the financial sector
(RFSI) and economic growth (GDP) in the midst of global economic policy uncertainty …

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of illiteracy and unemployment on financial
inclusion in rural areas of Nigeria between 2017 and 2022. Most rural areas in develo** …

This paper investigates the role of financial development in the rapid rise of life expectancy
in Bangladesh by using the annual data covering the period of 1972–2013. We examine the …

This study explored the role of financial development in foreign aid (measured by
agriculture, humanitarian, health, economic infrastructure and services, and education aid) …

We re‐examine the links between financial development and the real economy in Ghana
given the gaps in the literature, recent happenings in the financial sector, new dataset, and …

In this paper, we use a panel dataset of 33 countries to revisit the finance–economic growth
nexus in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1990–2015. Unlike previous studies, we proxy …

This study aims to investigate the phenomenon of women's presence on the boards of
industrial public companies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The first …

Differences in institutions have garnered much attention in recent years as one of the
primary reasons for long-term economic performance, and a vast corpus of theoretical and …

There is a substantial literature on the link between finance and growth. Empirical evidence
remains inconclusive and the debate continues. In this paper, we adopt the research …