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A Development Consensus reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus: Views and Agenda

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

Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal Institutional Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...

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The Evolving Debate on the Effect of Foreign Aid on Corruption and Institutions in Africa

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

This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It entails a series of publications that have been successively motivated by feedbacks from academic and policy making circles. The plethora of papers explores debates sustaining the...

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Knowledge Economy Gaps, Policy Syndromes and Catch-up Strategies: Fresh South Korean Lessons to Africa

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

Africa’s overall knowledge index fell between 2000 and 2009. South Korea’s economic miracle is largely due to a … knowledge economies. Using updated data (1996-2010), this paper presents fresh South Korean lessons to Africa by assessing the … syndromes and compelling catch-up strategies are discussed. Issues standing on the way to KE in Africa are dissected with great …

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International aid, corruption and fiscal policy behavior

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

The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption’ has had an important influence in policy and academic circles. This paper provides a unifying framework by using investment and fiscal behavior transmission channels in 53...

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Boosting scientific publications in Africa: which IPRs protection channels matter?

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

This paper examines how Africa’s share in the contribution to global scientific knowledge can be boosted with existing …

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Knowledge Economy and Financial Sector Competition in African Countries

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

The goal of this paper is to assess how knowledge economy (KE) plays out in financial sector competition. It suggests a practicable way to disentangle the effects of different components of KE on various financial sectors. The variables identified under the World Bank’s four knowledge economy...

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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 …

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New financial development indicators: with a critical contribution to inequality empirics

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013

The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...

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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment

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

, EB) findings for countries with poor financial systems may not be relevant for Africa. …

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Mobile banking and mobile phone penetration: which is more pro-poor in Africa?

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013

The contribution of this paper to complement theoretical and qualitative mobile penetration literature with empirical evidence is twofold: firstly, we assess the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and; secondly, the instrumentality of financial development dynamics in this...

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