Financial Development and Economic Growth Indicators for Sub-Saharan Africa

A dataset supporting a study on financial development and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. The research uses System GMM analysis to investigate relationships between financial indicators and regional economic performance. It was authored by Temesgen Yaekob Ergano and last updated on June 4, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of bank liquid reserves on economic growth based on the bank assets ratio (R/A) mentioned in the description
• Analyzing the relationship between trade openness and economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Investigating the effect of the broad money to total reserves ratio (M/R) on regional development
• Assessing the potential negative impact of domestic bank credit to the private sector (D_bank) on economic stability

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• File size is 5.5 KB, indicating a focused and manageable dataset.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely contains aggregated macroeconomic indicators analyzed via System GMM.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 17:22:24; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sub-Saharan Africa