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The white man's burden : on the effect of African resistance to European domination
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A.; Cinyabuguma, … - 2016
Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496363
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Political institutions, state building, and tax capacity : crossing the tipping point
Gaspar, Vítor; Jaramillo, Laura; Wingender, Philippe - 2016
this paper, we attempt via four case studies-Spain, China, Colombia, and Nigeria-to illustrate that the improvements in tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716283
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A Survey of Economic Policies and Macroeconomic Performance in Chile and Colombia, 1970-95
Clavijo, Sergio - 1995
the middle and late 1970s and by Colombia almost a decade later in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These reforms have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395870
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Colonial Origins, Institutions and Economic Performance in the Caribbean : Guyana and Barbados
DaCosta, Michael - 2007
The countries that were once British colonies in the Caribbean share a common language and a colonial history of slavery, dominance of a plantation-based sugar industry, and broadly similar government and administrative traditions. Following independence in the late-1960s economic strategies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400724
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Is the threat of foreign aid withdrawal an effective deterrent to political oppression? : evidence from 53 African countries
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on political rights, aid volatilities and the post-Berlin Wall period. The findings show that while foreign aid does not have a significant effect on political rights, foreign aid volatilities do mitigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496393
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Financial globalisation dynamic thresholds for financial development : evidence from Africa
Asongua, Simplice A.; Moor, Lieven de - 2015
Purpose - We investigate if financial development benefits from financial globalisation are questionable until certain … Foreign Direct Investment Inflows as a percentage of GDP (FDIgdp) whereas financial development entails dynamics of depth … globalisation on financial development is negative, there is a positive marginal effect, such that at a certain level of FDIgdp (or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407934
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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/10011408402
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408491
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Foreign aid volatility and lifelong learning: demand-side empirics to a textual literature
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
development through lifelong learning and knowledge economy as a competitive advantage. This may also explain why countries which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408497
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On the dynamic effects of foreign aid on corruption
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional proximity, openness to sea, natural resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408498