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The Effects of Remittances on Output per Worker in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Production Function Approach
Ssozi, John; Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if complemented with education. The indirect effects vary with...
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State fragility, rent seeking and lobbying: evidence from African data
Asongu, Asongu Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013
This paper assesses the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa using hitherto unexplored variables in the literature. The previously missing dimension of nation building is integrated and the hypothesis of state fragility being a function of rent seeking and/or lobbying by de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693284
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266297
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African Development: Beyond Income Convergence
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695998
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A Short-run Schumpeterian Trip to Embryonic African Monetary Zones
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
services on growth. Causality analysis is performed with seven financial development and three growth indicators in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696005
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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, reflect their findings in light of recent development models, debates and currents in post-2010 literature. We then re-examine their results with a non-monetary and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118305
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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
economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to the ‘inclusive development’ of 53 African countries during the 1996 … doing business as expressed in the state of KE, and through it to the inclusive development via the economic growth of those … variations in KE. The link between KE and economic growth exists, but it is weak, and we provide plausible reasons for such a …
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
Purpose – Education as a weapon in the fight against conflict and violence remains widely debated in policy and academic circles. Against the background of growing political instability in Africa and the central role of the knowledge economy in 21st century development, this paper provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103381