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The Economic Consequences of China-Africa Relations: Debunking Myths in the Debate

Asongu, Simplice A.; Gilbert, Aminkeng - 2013

This study dissects with great acuteness some of the big questions on China-Africa relations in order to debunk burgeoning myths surrounding the nexus. It reviews a wealth of recent literature and presents the debate in three schools of thought. No substantial empirical evidence is found to...

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

Asongu, Simplice A. - 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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China's Strategies in Economic Diplomacy: A Survey of Updated Lessons for Africa, the West and China

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Aminkeng, … - 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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Sino-African relations: some solutions and strategies to the policy syndromes

Asongu, Simplice A.; Ssozi, John - 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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Lessons from a survey of China's economic diplomacy

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Aminkeng, … - 2018

Today, the West faces a considerable dilemma in their support for the Washington Consensus as a dominant approach for development because the Beijing model has grown to become an unavoidable process which can only be neglected at the cost of standing on the wrong side of economic history. The...

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Reconciliation of the Washington Consensus with the Beijing Model in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

In this study, we argue that an approach which will reconcile the two opposing camps in Sino-African relations and bring the most progress is a “middle passage” that greases contradictions and offers an accommodative, balanced and pragmatic vision on which Africans can unite. We present a...

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Liberalization and financial sector competition: a critical contribution to the empirics with an African assessment

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013

This paper investigates how financial, trade, institutional and political liberalization policies have affected …: (1) with the exception of the economic freedom mechanism, liberalization policies have generally decreased the growth of … economic freedom channels, liberalization policies have been fruitful for semi-formal financial development at the cost of …

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Fighting African capital flight: timelines for the adoption of common policies

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013

This paper provides an exhaustive assessment of feasible horizons for policy harmonization against African capital flight. The empirical evidence is based on a methodological innovation on common policy initiatives and the results are premised on 15 fundamental characteristics of African capital...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390826

Fighting African Capital Flight: Empirics on Benchmarking Policy Harmonization

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013

With earthshaking and heartbreaking trends in African capital flight provided by a new database, this paper complements existing literature by answering some key policy questions on the feasibility of and timeframe for policy harmonization in the battle against the economic scourge. The goal of...

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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, Christian-Lambert - 2014

Is China-Africa economic relation instrumental for capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ? Does it matter in the improvement of external debt's impact on GDP per capita and capital flight reduction in particular? This paper extends and assesses the Asongu and Aminkeng (2013) conclusions...

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