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Foreign direct investment, domestic investment and green growth in Nigeria: Any spillovers?

Adejumo, Akintoye Victor; Asongu, Simplice - 2019

Globally, investments in physical and human capital have been identified to foster real economic growth and development … complements or substitutes in varying scenarios. While domestic investments bring about endogenous growth processes, foreign … investment, though may be exogenous to growth, has been identified to bring about productivity and ecological spillovers. In view …

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Inequality, Finance and Pro-Poor Investment in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2015

This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa. The empirical evidence is based on restricted and unrestricted Two-Stage Least Squares and a pre-crisis periodicity (1980-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household...

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The Comparative Inclusive Human Development of Globalisation in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich...

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Exploring Multidimensional Financial Inclusion and Manufacturing Firms Performance in a Developing Country: The Case of Nigeria

Efobi, Uchenna; Tanankem, Belmondo V.; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2016

This study used the matching technique to explore the impact of financial inclusion on the performance of manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Most studies that have considered financial inclusion have largely focused on household access to the services of financial institutions, but have...

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On the Relationship between Globalisation and the Economic Participation of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Efobi, Uchenna R.; Tanankem, Belmondo V. - 2017

: varying conditioning information sets, changes in the growth of urban population, government consumption, legal systems …

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Inclusive human development in pre-crisis times of globalisation-driven debts

Asongu, Simplice; Efobi, Uchenna; Beecroft, Ibukun - 2014

The paper verifies the Azzimonti et al. (2014) conclusions on a sample of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2008. Authors of the underlying study have established theoretical underpinnings for a negative nexus between rising public debt and inequality in OECD nations. We assess the...

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Investment and Inequality in Africa: which financial channels are good for the poor?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper examines how domestic, foreign, private and public investments affect income-inequality through financial intermediary dynamics. With the exception of financial allocation efficiency, financial channels of depth and activity are good for the poor as they diminish estimated household...

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Finance and Inequality: Exploring Pro-Poor Investment Channels in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to lack of relevant data. This paper integrates previously missing investment and financial components in the assessment of how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings...

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Liberalization and financial sector competition: a critical contribution to the empirics with an African assessment

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013

: (1) with the exception of the economic freedom mechanism, liberalization policies have generally decreased the growth of …

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Globalisation and female economic participation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2019

This study assesses the relationship between globalisation and the economic participation of women (EPW) in 47 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1990-2013. EPW is measured with the female labour force participation and employment rates. The empirical evidence is based on...

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