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Recent advances in finance for inclusive development: a survey
Asongu, Simplice; Lieven, De Moor - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015
The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the … challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in finance for more inclusiveness. The overarching question tackled in … advances in finance for inclusive development. The analytical approach consists of first, situating issues of exclusive growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196379
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Measuring IDA program's impact
Community Affairs Office - In: e-Perspectives (2010) 2
Since 2007, the state of New Mexico has invested $2.45 million to support Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) for New Mexico savers. This funding provides a much-needed local match required by federal IDA funding, which was awarded through the Assets for Independence Act.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676455
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Community Action in southern New Mexico
Community Affairs Office - In: e-Perspectives (2010) 2
The national Community Action program began in the 1960s to serve as a focal point in local communities for the war on poverty. Programs were established in a majority of counties across the U.S., including some in rural areas. Many programs continue to thrive today, and in mostly rural southern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676456
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Law and Finance in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
This paper assesses how legal origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law. It employs all the dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The law channels are instrumented with legal origins to account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693282
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Law, Finance and Investment: does legal origin matter in Africa?
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. The findings show that legal origin matters in the finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693289
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Investment and Inequality in Africa: which financial channels are good for the poor?
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
in the literature provide new insights into the finance-inequality nexus. Policy implications are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693294
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Finance and Democracy in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious-domination, income-levels and colonial-legacies. The main findings are summarized as follows. Authoritarian regimes have a higher propensity to effect policies that favour the development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693299
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Finance and Inequality: Exploring Pro-Poor Investment Channels in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings reveal, but for the case of foreign investment, financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693302
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New financial intermediary development indicators for developing countries
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
Financial development indicators are often applied to countries/regions without taking into account specific financial development realities. Financial depth in the perspective of monetary base is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development context. This paper introduces complementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693305
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A Short-run Schumpeterian Trip to Embryonic African Monetary Zones
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
With the spectre of the Euro crisis looming substantially large and scaring potential monetary unions, this study is a short-run trip to embryonic African monetary zones to assess the Schumpeterian thesis for positive spillovers of financial services on growth. Causality analysis is performed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696005