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Table 5 Summary Statistics

From: Fighting African capital flight: trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies

 

Variables

Mean

S.D

Min.

Max.

Observations

Capital Flight

3.647

28.643

−13.637

399.14

540

 Expenditure

Government Expenditure

4.015

10.790

−68.238

80.449

376

Public Expenditure

7.704

4.636

0.000

30.120

487

 Globalization

Trade Openness

69.503

38.157

8.199

246.89

557

Foreign Direct Investment

2.300

4.393

−16.118

35.190

485

Private Capital Flows

2.410

4.555

−16.118

35.295

489

 Institutional Quality

Regulation Quality

−0.606

0.607

−2.526

0.857

293

Rule of Law

−0.697

0.648

−2.312

0.863

294

 Economic Prosperity

GDP growth

3.539

4.624

−29.178

24.176

559

GDP per capita growth

1.060

4.407

−23.539

23.104

564

 Foreign Aid

Total NODA

10.223

9.915

0.054

62.344

559

NODA from DAC countries

6.062

6.144

−0.175

53.017

559

 Finance and Inflation

Money Supply

0.305

0.202

0.001

1.224

472

Liquid Liabilities

0.235

0.186

0.001

1.017

474

Inflation

105.80

1226.3

−100.00

24,411

520

 Categorization

Upper Middle Income

0.162

0.368

0.000

1.000

592

Lower Middle Income

0.297

0.457

0.000

1.000

592

Middle Income

0.459

0.498

0.000

1.000

592

Low Income

0.540

0.498

0.000

1.000

592

English

0.405

0.491

0.000

1.000

592

French

0.594

0.491

0.000

1.000

592

Christianity

0.702

0.457

0.000

1.000

592

Islam

0.297

0.457

0.000

1.000

592

Sub-Saharan Africa

0.891

0.310

0.000

1.000

592

North Africa

0.108

0.310

0.000

1.000

592

Oil

0.216

0.412

0.000

1.000

592

Non-oil

0.783

0.412

0.000

1.000

592

Conflict

0.297

0.457

0.000

1.000

592

Non-conflict

0.702

0.457

0.000

1.000

592

  1. SD Standard Deviation, Min Minimum, Max Maximum