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Law, Economic Growth and Human Development: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
-Saharan Africa is slightly below the average of Francophone Africa. As a policy implication, results support the benefits of the rule …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862076
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Economic Implications of Business Dynamics for KE-Associated Economic Growth and Inclusive Development in African Countries
Asongu, Simplice; Amavilah, Voxi; Andrés, Antonio - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
reduction, than some of conventional controls in this study such as FDI, foreign aid, and even private investment. There is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098704
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Inclusive human development in pre-crisis times of globalisation-driven debts
Asongu, Simplice; EFOBI, Uchenna; BEECROFT, Ibukun - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
The paper verifies the Azzimonti et al. (2014) conclusions on a sample of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2008. Authors of the underlying study have established theoretical underpinnings for a negative nexus between rising public debt and inequality in OECD nations. We assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098705
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Foreign Aid and Corruption: Clarifying Murky Empirical Conclusions
EFOBI, Uchenna; BEECROFT, Ibukun; ASONGU, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing heterogeneity dimension of aid. The relationship was estimated using dynamic system GMM and quantile regressions (QR). Results show that both narratives in the debate are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098706
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The Role of Lifelong Learning in Political Stability and Non-violence: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
academic circles. Against the background of growing political instability in Africa and the central role of the knowledge … learning can be an effective tool in the fight against violence and political insurgency in Africa. Originality/value – As the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103381
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A brief clarification to the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development
Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
The study clarifies the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development. It investigates the effect of a plethora of foreign aid dynamics on the inequality adjusted human development index. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM technique with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103383
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Is Poverty in the African DNA (Gene)?
Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015
dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013, AER) and reformulating the ‘Out of Africa Hypothesis’ into a ‘Genetic … Diversity Hypothesis’ for a ‘Within Africa Analysis’. We motivate this reformulation with five shortcomings arising for the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265219
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On the Effect of State fragility on Corruption
Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data (1996-2010) from 53 African countries, we provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266296
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Sino-African relations: some solutions and strategies to the policy syndromes
Asongu, Simplice; Ssozi, John - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015
her operations and local businesses; exporting low quality products to Africa; and the emergence of China hindering Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268617
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The questionable economics of development assistance in Africa: hot-fresh evidence, 1996-2010
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
as a sustainable cure to poverty in Africa. Though the stated intents or purposes of aid are socio-economic, the actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079381