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Financial Integration and Economic Growth in the COMESA and SADC Regions

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  • Roseline Nyakerario Misati
  • Clement Ighodaro
  • Maureen Were
  • John Omiti

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This study used panel data methods to examine the relationship between financial integration and economic growth in the COMESA and SADC regions. Using Foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio flows as a share of GDP, Chinn-Ito index of financial openness and debt flows as measures of financial integration, the study found that the relationship between financial integration and growth is largely insignificant in the combined sample of COMESA and SADC regions. However, the relationship changes when the two regions are separated. Whereas two of the indicators of financial integration are significant in the COMESA region, only one indicator of financial integration is significant in the SADC region implying that financial integration is more important in the COMESA region than in the SADC region. The results support the growth retarding theories of financial globalization and the convergence hypothesis in the COMESA region while the neoclassical trade theories find strong support in the SADC region. These results imply, first, that financial integration has different growth effects for different regional groupings and thus integration policies should not be universally applied. Second, these results imply that further enhancement of trade integration policies offer more promising outcomes for economic growth in the SADC region than financial integration policies while the converse is true for the COMESA region.

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  • Roseline Nyakerario Misati & Clement Ighodaro & Maureen Were & John Omiti, 2015. "Financial Integration and Economic Growth in the COMESA and SADC Regions," Journal of African Business, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(1-2), pages 109-127, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:wjabxx:v:16:y:2015:i:1-2:p:109-127
    DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2015.1059157
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