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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

Beijing Model. Both the first and second schools have core values articulated by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development …

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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

her operations and local businesses; exporting low quality products to Africa; and the emergence of China hindering Africa …

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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 … revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013, AER) and reformulating the ‘Out of Africa Hypothesis’ into a ‘Genetic … Diversity Hypothesis’ for a ‘Within Africa Analysis’. We motivate this reformulation with five shortcomings arising for the most …

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On the Effect of State fragility on Corruption

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

The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data (1996-2010) from 53 African countries, we provide...

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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

’s economic diplomatic strategies and discusses lessons for Africa, China and the West. It contributes to existing literature by …

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Foreign Aid and Governance in Africa

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

influence the election and replacement of political leaders in Africa may have insignificant results. It is time to solve the … paper extends the debate on foreign aid and institutions in Africa in the light a plethora of recent studies in the aid …

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Foreign aid, investment and fiscal policy behavior: theory and empirical evidence

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

The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...

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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

This paper develops an empirically-relevant framework (a) to examine whether or not the African business environment hinders or promotes the knowledge economy (KE), (b) to determine how the KE which emerges from such an environment affects economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to...

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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...

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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

academic circles. Against the background of growing political instability in Africa and the central role of the knowledge … learning can be an effective tool in the fight against violence and political insurgency in Africa. Originality/value – As the …

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