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Fighting African capital flight: timelines for the adoption of common policies
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
This paper provides an exhaustive assessment of feasible horizons for policy harmonization against African capital flight. The empirical evidence is based on a methodological innovation on common policy initiatives and the results are premised on 15 fundamental characteristics of African capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390826
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Fighting African Capital Flight: Empirics on Benchmarking Policy Harmonization
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
With earthshaking and heartbreaking trends in African capital flight provided by a new database, this paper complements existing literature by answering some key policy questions on the feasibility of and timeframe for policy harmonization in the battle against the economic scourge. The goal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390828
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Institutions and Poverty: A Critical Comment Based on Evolving Currents and Debates
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2014
Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty … eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390893
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956950
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Governance, debt service, information technology and access to electricity in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara - 2024
The study investigates the role of governance (i.e., 'voice & accountability', political stability/no violence, regulatory quality, government effectiveness, corruption-control and the rule of law) in the incidence of short-term debt services on infrastructure development in the perspective of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549302
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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment
Asongu, Simplice A. - 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 … why the Acemoglu & Johnson (2005) justification provided for the measurement of property rights institutions (PRI) is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390860
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An Empirical Note on Tribalism and Government Effectiveness
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
This study assesses the relationship between tribalism (the tribalism index) and government effectiveness (per the World Bank) in 65 countries using cross-sectional data averages from 2000-2010. This study finds that countries with high-tribal populations generally enjoy bad governance in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390909
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Women in Power and Power of Women: the Liberian Experience
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
Do women really improve conditions for gender equality after becoming heads of states? This study investigates if having a woman at the helm of country's decision making processes leads to better indicators on women conditions. Using time series observations for the period 2000-2011, we test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390919
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Growth and Institutions in African Development
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
Edited by Augustin K. Fosu Routledge Studies in Development Economics, 2015, pp. 393 (Hardcover). Reviewed by Simplice A. Asongu African Governance and Development Institute P.O. Box 8413, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390930
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On the Empirics of Institutions and Quality of Growth: Evidence for Developing Countries
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015
We explore a newly available dataset on quality of growth to investigate the effect of institutions on growth quality … in 93 developing countries for the period 1990 to 2011. Quality of institutions is measured in term of political risk … established. First, institutions are positively related to the quality of growth. Second, institutions have significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390938