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FDI, Aid, Terrorism: Conditional Threshold Evidence from Developing Countries
Asongu, Simplice; Efobi, Uchenna; Beecroft, Ibukun - 2015
threshold evidence from GDP growth, infrastructural development and trade openness. Policy implications are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310231
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Long-term effects of population growth on aggregate investment dynamics: selected country evidence for Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
Purpose - Our generation is witnessing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the heart of it. There is mounting concern over corresponding rising unemployment and depleting per capita income. I examine the issues in this paper from a long-run perspective by assessing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390764
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How would population growth affect investment in the future? Asymmetric panel causality evidence for Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
Our generation is experiencing the greatest demographic transition and Africa is at the center of it. There is mounting concern over corresponding rising unemployment and depleting per capita income. We examine the issues in this paper from a long-run perspective by assessing the relationships...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390765
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Trust and Prosperity: A Conditional Relationship
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2013
The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on 'trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of outliers. The empirical evidence is based on 63 countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390846
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Drivers of Growth in Fast Emerging Economies: A Dynamic Instrumental Quantile Approach
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
assessing the determinants throughout the conditional distributions of the growth rate and real GDP output for the period 2001 … positive for GDP growth, it is negative for real GDP output. Fifth, while trade openness is positive in bottom quantiles of GDP … growth, but for the highest quantile in real GDP output, it is consistently negative on real GDP output. Sixth, while the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390901
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Welfare Spending and Quality of Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Hopefuls, Contenders and Best Performers
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the policy debate from growth to 'quality of growth' (QG). The April 2015 World Bank publication on MDGs extreme poverty targets has revealed that poverty has been decreasing in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390920
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Determinants of Growth in Fast Developing Countries: Evidence from Bundling and Unbundling Institutions
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
-Effects regressions are employed as empirical strategies. GDP growth and real GDP output are used as dependent variables. The governance … constituents (political stability and voice & accountability) are significantly positive in GDP growth but insignificant in real … GDP output regressions. Third, the other governance dynamics are more significant determinants of real GDP output, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390921
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Trust and Quality of Growth: A Note
Asongu, Simplice A.; Gupta, Rangan - 2015
The transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has substantially shifted the policy debate from growth to inclusive growth. In this short note, we revisit the trust-growth nexus by exploiting a dataset on quality of growth (QG), recently made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390923
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Trade, Aid and Terror
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015
This study assesses the role of foreign aid in reducing the hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on trade using a panel of 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive GMM estimations with forward orthogonal deviations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390925
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Testing the Relationships between Energy Consumption, CO2 emissions and Economic Growth in 24 African Countries: a Panel ARDL Approach
Asongu, Simplice A.; Montasser, Ghassen El; Toumi, Hassen - 2015
) and economic growth (GDP) in 24 African countries using a panel ARDL approach. The following findings are established …. First, there is a long run relationship between EC, CE and GDP. Second, a long term effect from CE to GDP and EC is apparent … only EC can be significantly adjusted to its long run relationship. Fourth, there is a long-run causality running from GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390934