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Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011

This paper assesses how legal origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law. It employs all the dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The law channels are instrumented with legal origins to account...

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Investment and Inequality in Africa: which financial channels are good for the poor?

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011

in the literature provide new insights into the finance-inequality nexus. Policy implications are discussed. …

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Finance and Inequality: Exploring Pro-Poor Investment Channels in Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011

Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings reveal, but for the case of foreign investment, financial …

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A Short-run Schumpeterian Trip to Embryonic African Monetary Zones

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012

With the spectre of the Euro crisis looming substantially large and scaring potential monetary unions, this study is a short-run trip to embryonic African monetary zones to assess the Schumpeterian thesis for positive spillovers of financial services on growth. Causality analysis is performed...

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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment

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

The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … substitution of institutions and finance in investment. Results under many baseline and augmented scenarios are not consistent with …

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