Financial Development Indicators and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is the focus of this dataset, which contains variables used in a System GMM analysis of financial development and economic growth. The dataset, 5.5 KB in size, was authored by Temesgen Yaekob Ergano and last updated on June 4, 2026. It includes indicators such as bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio, trade openness, and broad money to total reserves ratio.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of bank liquidity (R/A ratio) on economic growth.
• Analyzing the effect of trade openness on regional economic performance.
• Investigating the relationship between private sector credit (D_bank) and economic development.
• Assessing the influence of broad money supply relative to reserves (M/R ratio) on growth.

Strengths

• Dataset is small (5.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection.
• Explicitly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for open reuse.
• Specific financial indicators like R/A and M/R ratios are mentioned in the description.

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 compiled for academic research using System GMM analysis.

Freshness

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

Geography

Sub-Saharan Africa