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External Debt Origin, Capital Flight and Poverty Reduction in the Franc Zone: Does the Economic Consequences of Sino-African Relationship matter?

NGUENA, NGUENA Christian-Lambert - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

Is China-Africa economic relation instrumental for capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ? Does it matter in the … capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ. The construction of a theoretical framework highlighting stylized fact and the … as capital flight and; (b) The capital flight contributes to improving the level of poverty in Africa. Overall, we can …

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Institutions and Poverty: A Critical Comment Based on Evolving Currents and Debates

Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …-examine their results with a non-monetary and multidimensional poverty indicator first published in 2010. Our findings confirm the … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …

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Does Intelligence Affect Economic Diversification?

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

This paper extends the growing literature on knowledge economy by investigating the effect of intelligence on economic diversification. Using a battery of estimation techniques that are robust to endogeneity, we find that human capital has positive correlations with export diversification,...

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China’s Strategies in Economic Diplomacy: A Survey of Updated Lessons for Africa, the West and China

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Aminkeng, … - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

The Washington consensus, the hitherto dominant scheme is being encroached by the Beijing model. Many African nations are increasingly embracing this Beijing approach because the dominant Western model has failed to deliver on a number of fronts. This is increasingly evident because China’s...

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Foreign Aid and Governance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

Purpose – This paper investigates the effect of foreign aid on governance in order to extend the debates on foreign aid and to verify common positions from Moyo’s ‘Dead Aid’, Collier’s ‘Bottom Billion’ and Eubank’s ‘Somaliland’. The empirical evidence is based on updated data...

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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 … diversity. Hence, poverty is not in the African gene from a within-Africa comparative standpoint. Policy implications are …

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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

We survey about 110 recently published studies on Sino-African relations; put some structure on the documented issues before suggesting some solutions and strategies to the identified policy syndromes. The documented issues classified into eight main strands include, China: targeting nations...

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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development: Kuznets, Piketty and the great policy reversal

Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015

-term poverty; address concerns of burgeoning population growth; train recipient governments on inclusive development; fight …

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Sino-African relations: a review and reconciliation of dominant schools of thought

Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

We review about 100 papers on Sino-African relations published during the past 5 years for the most part, in order to put some structure on the existing strands. The literature is classified into dominant schools of thought, namely the: neocolonial or pessimistic; balance-development or...

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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 transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...

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