Segun Thompson Bolarinwa

Biographic Data

ID6502763
NAMESegun Thompson Bolarinwa
GIVEN NAMESSegun Thompson
FAMILY NAMEBolarinwa
SIGNATUREBOLARINWA S T
AFFILIATIONSChrisland University
ORCID0000-0002-6024-6569
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Foreign ownership and firm performance: Evidence from the South African informal sector

    Open AccessSegun Thompson Bolarinwa, Munacinga Simatele et al.ARTICLEDevelopment Southern Africa2024

    This paper investigates the effect of foreign ownership on firm performance in the South African informal sector. Using the data of 1097 informal businesses sourced from the World Bank Enterprises Survey conducted in four Township provinces in South Africa (Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape) in 2020, the paper aims to address two issues: what is the effect of foreign ownership on performance in the South African informal secto…

  • How does globalisation affect informality in sub‐Saharan African countries

    Open AccessMunacinga Simatele, Segun Thompson BolarinwaARTICLESustainable Development2024Cited by: 2References: 11

    This paper examines the intricate informality‐globalisation nexus in the sub‐Saharan African context using 30 African countries. Using the Method of Moments Quantile Regression approach (MM‐QR), this study analyses the nexus using three measures of globalisation: overall, economic and trade globalisation. Furthermore, the mediating role of institutional quality is explored using five dimensions of institutional quality. The empirical results conf…

  • Informality and poverty in Africa: Which comes first

    Open AccessSegun Thompson Bolarinwa, Munacinga SimateleARTICLESustainable Development2022Cited by: 2References: 3

    Existing empirical work has investigated the relationship between informality and poverty. However, most of this work has neglected the feedback effect. This empirical paper explores the bi‐directional causality between poverty and informality within the SGMM‐PVAR framework among 40 selected high‐income and low‐income Sub‐Saharan countries between 1991 and 2018. Our results support the heterogeneity argument, suggesting that sub‐Saharan African i…

  • The effect of financial development on income inequality in Africa

    Segun Thompson Bolarinwa, Xuan Vinh Vo et al.ARTICLEDevelopment Southern Africa2021

    Extant studies on the relationship between financial development and inequality have largely adopted single financial indicators especially the private credit/GDP. Unlike these works, the present study adopts a robust total financial development indicator based on four mainstays of financial development of financial deepening, efficiency, stability and access following the World Bank recommendation on the measurement of financial development. Usi…

  • Does Financial Development Really Matter for Poverty Reduction in Africa

    Segun Thompson Bolarinwa, Olumide Olusegun Olaoye et al.ARTICLEForum for Social Economics2021Cited by: 1References: 2

    This paper revisits the financial development–poverty nexus. The study builds a robust measure of financial development that captures the state of financial development in Africa. We adopt the measure for examining the relationship between 1996 and 2015. Our results agree with a priori expectation. Overall, we find a reducing effect of financial development on absolute poverty but this does not affect relative poverty. Private credit has a povert…