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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : a survey

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of Piketty. Abandoning the former's view that inequality...

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Poverty and development in Tanzania

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Katera, Lucas; Mwombela, Stephen; … - 2018

The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in Tanzania which is measured on the basis of whether and how often respondents go, in the course of one year, without food, water, medical care, cooking fuel and cash income. By...

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Growth, employment, poverty and inequality in Tanzania

Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018

This paper shows that in Tanzania, economic growth contributes to job creation and employment opportunities, however, it does very little to curb income inequality. Using official data from various local sources compiled by the National Bureau of Statistics, the paper provides an explanation as...

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The role of human development on deforestation in Africa : a modelling-based approach

Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian A. - 2012

The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world. This study uses country-level data to model changes in forest area over an 18 year period (1990-2007) in 35 African countries and investigates the role played by important...

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Research productivity : trend and comparative analyses by regions and continents

Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2021

Using data for the period 2000 to 2019, the aim of this paper is to: (i) profile and compare research publications in regions and continents worldwide namely Africa, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern America, Latin America, the Asiatic region, the Pacific region and the Middle East; (ii)...

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New insight into the causal linkage between economic expansion, FDI, coal consumption, pollutant emissions and urbanization in South Africa

Joshua, Udi; Bekun, Festus Victor; Sarkodie, Samuel A. - 2020

role of urbanization, coal consumption and CO2 emissions as additional variables to avoid omitted variable bias. The … a driver of economic advancement. The empirical study shows a bidirectional causal effect between urbanization and …

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Promoting environmental sustainability in Africa : evidence from governance synergy

Traoré, Awa; Ndour, Cheikh T.; Asongu, Simplice - 2023

composite governance indicator has a negative effect on CO2 emissions. Moreover, urbanization, economic growth, trade and …

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Industrialisation, finance, and urbanisation in Africa

Adeniyi, Oluwatosin A.; Folarin, Oludele - 2023

This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to what extent does financial development affect this industrialisation- urbanisation nexus? To elicit answers to these questions, data from thirty-three (33) African countries over...

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Heterogeneous assessment of urbanisation, energy consumption and environmental pollution in Africa : the role of regulatory quality

Ibekilo, Bruno N.; Ekesiobi, Chukwunonso; Emmanuel, … - 2023

The pace of urbanisation, the intensity of energy consumption, and the quality of environmental regulation level pose a severe threat to environmental sustainability in Africa. Hence, we examine the role of regulatory quality on environmental pollution through urbanisation and energy consumption...

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Trivariate modelling of the nexus between electricity consumption, urbanization and economic growth in Nigeria : fresh insights from Maki cointegration and causality tests

Hamisu Sadi Ali; Nathaniel, Solomon P.; Uzuner, Gizem; … - 2020

In this era of intensive electricity utilization for economic development, the role of urbanization remains … in a trivariate framework by incorporating urbanization as an additional variable. Using the recent novel Maki …) consumption. A unidirectional causality from urbanization to electricity consumption and economic growth was found but the long …

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