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Aid, terrorism, and foreign direct investment: Empirical insight conditioned on corruption control
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2018
This paper examines the effect of foreign aid in the terrorism-FDI nexus while considering the extent of domestic … established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is apparent only in countries with higher levels of CC; foreign aid dampens … the negative effect of terrorism on FDI only in countries with high levels of CC. The result is mixed when foreign aid is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112190
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Law, Economic Growth and Human Development: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of economic and inequality adjusted human developments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390773
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Financial Determinants of Human Development in Developing Countries
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
Hitherto financial drivers of human development have been unexplored by the UNDP. This paper assesses determinants of human development from financial dynamics of depth, efficiency, size and activity on data from 38 developing countries. While the importance of financial activity, size and depth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390775
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African Development: Beyond Income Convergence
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
In examining some big questions on African development, we provide evidence that dynamics of some development indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390790
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Globalization and Africa: implications for human development
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of trade and financial globalization on human development in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). Design/methodology/approach - The estimation technique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390811
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The Impact of Software Piracy on Inclusive Human Development: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio Rodríguez - 2014
This paper examines two dimensions of the software piracy-development nexus to complement existing formal literature. It empirically assesses the incidence of piracy on the Human Development Index (HDI) and its constituents and then the instrumentality of Intellectual Property Right (IPR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390895
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The Impact of Software Piracy on Inclusive Human Development: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2015
The study examines the effect of software piracy on inclusive human development in 11 African countries for which software piracy data is available for the period 2000-2010. The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable panel Fixed Effects (FE) and Tobit models in order to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596328
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Finance and Inclusive Human Development: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
This study investigates direct and indirect linkages between financial development and inclusive human development in data panels for African countries using a battery of estimation techniques, notably: Two-Stage Least Squares, Fixed Effects, Generalized Method of Moments and Tobit regressions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596334
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The role of finance in inclusive human development in Africa revisited
Asongu, Simplice; Nting, Rexon T. - 2021
This study investigates direct and indirect linkages between financial development and inclusive human development in data panels for African countries. It employs a battery of estimation techniques, notably: Two-Stage Least Squares, Fixed Effects, Generalized Method of Moments and Tobit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652967
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Human development and governance in Africa: Do good fences make good neighbours?
Asongu, Simplice; Diop, Samba - 2021
In this paper, we revisit the relationship between governance and human development in Africa during the period 2010-2019 taking into account the existence of spatial dependence and controlling the endogeneity problem through a Generalized Spatial Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS). The exploratory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801020