Economic freedom, inclusive growth, and financial development: A heterogeneous panel analysis of developing countries

• Zhengrong Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhengrong Yang, Prince Asare Vitenu-Sackey

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation School of Finance and Business, Zhenjiang College, Zhenjiang, China

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• Prince Asare Vitenu-Sackey ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhengrong Yang, Prince Asare Vitenu-Sackey

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: prince.vitenu-sackey@strath.ac.uk, pavsackey@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Economics, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8324-6521

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• Lizhong Hao ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ LH and YT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Pamplin School of Business Administration, University of Portland, Portland, OR, United States of America

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• Yuqi Tao

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LH and YT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Business School, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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