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African development : beyond income convergence

Asongu, Simplice - In: The South African journal of economics 82 (2014) 3, pp. 334-353

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Are proposed African monetary unions optimal currency areas? : real, monetary and fiscal policy convergence analysis

Asongu, Simplice - In: African journal of economic and management studies : AJEMS 5 (2014) 1, pp. 9-29

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010376509

Foreign aid, instability and governance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2019

This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996-2010. An autoregressive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998497

Foreign Aid, Instability and Governance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2019

This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instability on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996-2010. An autoregressive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871458

Foreign Aid Instability and Bundled Governance Dynamics in Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2016

Purpose - With the recent financial crisis and reduction of foreign aid by donor countries, the aid-institutions debate is shifting to how aid instability affects governance in developing countries. We engage the policy debate by assessing the role of foreign aid instability on governance...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997622

African Development : Beyond Income Convergence

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates … convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in 38 African countries, disaggregated into 10 … is that the income component of the human development index moves slower than others in the convergence process and thus …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032540

A survey on the Washington Consensus and the Beijing Model : reconciling development perspectives

Asongu, Simplice; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2019

Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal Institutional Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058464

Foreign aid instability and bundled governance dynamics in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015

Purpose- With the recent financial crisis and reduction of foreign aid by donor countries, the aid-institutions debate is shifting to how aid instability affects governance in developing countries. We engage the policy debate by assessing the role of foreign aid instability on governance...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596858

Is the Threat of Foreign Aid Withdrawal an Effective Deterrent to Political Oppression? Evidence from 53 African Countries

Asongu, Simplice - 2017

This study complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on political rights, aid volatilities and the post-Berlin Wall period. The findings show that while foreign aid does not have a significant effect on political rights, foreign aid volatilities do mitigate...

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Fighting African capital flight : trajectories, dynamics and tendencies

Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019

An April 2015 World Bank report on attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), in spite of the sub-region enjoying more than two...

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