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Linkages between Investment Flows and Financial Development: Causality Evidence from Selected African Countries
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
Purpose - This paper introduces previously missing financial components(efficiency, activity and size) in the assessment of the finance-investment nexus. Design/methodology/approach - VAR models in the perspectives of VECM and short-run Granger causality are employed. Usage of optimally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696004
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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 … learning can be an effective tool in the fight against violence and political insurgency in Africa. Originality/value – As the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103381
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Determinants of Health Professionals’ Migration in Africa: a WHO based Assessment
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013
? Despite the acute concern of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775519
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The Impact of Liberalisation Policies on Inequality in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice; Batuo, Michael E. - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
Despite over three decades of Liberalisation policies in Africa, income-inequality has stayed persistently high. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695992
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Inequality, poverty and quality of institutions: which freedom channels of globalization matter for Africa?
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013
Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure financial liberalization (KAOPEN) has a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695997
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Software piracy, inequality and the poor: evidence from Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are … the incidence of piracy on inequality in Africa: a continent with stubbornly high poverty and inequality rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696011
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Globalization, Peace & Stability, Governance, and Knowledge Economy
Amavilah, Amavilah Voxi; Asongu, Asongu Simplice; … - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
A previous analysis of the impact of formal institutions on the knowledge economy of 22 Middle-Eastern and Sub-Sahara African countries during the 1996-2010 time period concluded that formal institutions were necessary, but inadequate, determinants of the knowledge economy. To extend that study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887037
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The Effect of Intelligence on Financial Development: A Cross-Country Comparison
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015
development is established in increasing magnitude: Africa, Americas, Oceania, Europe & Asia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166592
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Recent advances in finance for inclusive development: a survey
Asongu, Simplice; Lieven, De Moor - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015
The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196379
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The impact of health worker migration on development dynamics: evidence of wealth-effects from Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
economic prosperity (at macro and micro levels) in Africa. Owing to lack of relevant data on Health Human Resource (HHR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862109