Journal
ENERGIES
Volume 13, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en13133426
Keywords
financial liberalisation; real economic growth; resource policy; trade openness; political stability policy; quantile estimates
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- Ministry of Higher Education Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) [4F980]
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This study aimed to analyse financial liberalisation, political stability, and economic determinants of Kenya's real economic growth using time series data over the period of 1970-2016. The authors specified quadratic and interactive models to be estimated by employing a quantile regression analysis. The traditional and quantile unit root test was used in testing the stationarity issue. The co-integration findings indicated that the capital account openness and financial development impede on real economic growth; and the political stability also had potential influence on the real economic growth of Kenya. Interestingly, there is a nonlinear U-shape link between financial development and real economic growth that undermined the real economic growth at its onset, but as it advanced, it enhanced the growth of the country in the long run. The policymakers should ensure that the capital account is more liberalised so that it will continue to stimulate the financial development. In the same way, the liberalisation of the domestic financial market should be taken in earnest to overcome the negative effects of financial repression in totality, while maintaining the stable political atmosphere.
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