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Does corruption starve? An African perspective
Ndieupa, Henri Njangang; Asongu, Simplice; Mouchili, Eric - 2022
Corruption remains a major challenge to sustainable economic growth, good governance, peace, and stability in both developed and developing countries. However, in developing countries, and particularly in Africa, hunger is another big challenge to inclusive economic development. To date, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330050
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Does corruption starve Africa? The mitigating effect of political distribution of power
Ndieupa, Henri Njangang; Asongu, Simplice; Mouchili, Eric - 2023
Corruption remains a major challenge to sustainable economic growth, good governance, peace, and stability in both developed and developing countries. However, in developing countries, and particularly in Africa, hunger is another big challenge to inclusive economic development. To date, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014560463
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Determinants of Health Professionals' Migration in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390789
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Globalization and health worker crisis: what do wealth-effects tell us?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world. Shortages in health professionals are reaching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390808
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The impact of health worker migration on development dynamics: evidence of wealth-effects from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and economic prosperity (at macro and micro levels) in Africa. Owing to lack of relevant data on Health Human Resource (HHR) migration for the continent, the subject matter has remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390819
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Determinants of Health Professionals' Migration in Africa: a WHO based Assessment
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
Purpose - How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390856
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The Effects of Remittances on Output per Worker in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Production Function Approach
Ssozi, John; Asongu, Simplice A. - 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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Law, Politics and the Quality of Government in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
African countries for the period 1994-2010. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income … that democracy has an edge over autocracy while the latter and polity overlap. As a policy implication, democracy once …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596355
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Law, Democracy and the Quality of Government in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A … democracy that takes into account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390781
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Finance and Democracy in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
propensity to effect policies that favour the development of financial intermediary depth, activity and size. Democracy has … policies towards financial development. As a policy implication, once democracy is initiated, it should be accelerated (to edge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390784