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Financial institutions, poverty and severity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Soumtang, Valentine B.; Edoh, Ofeh M. - 2021

The study assesses how financial institution dynamics have affected poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 sub … institutions dynamics affect poverty and the severity of poverty throughout the conditional distribution of poverty and severity of … poverty. The findings show various tendencies, inter alia: (i) financial institutions depth (efficiency) consistently …

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The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores

Meijers, Huub; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

This paper examines whether noncognitive skills - measured both by personality traits and economic preference parameters - influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea is that noncognitive skills might affect the effort people put into a test to obtain good results. We experimentally...

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The importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for measuring IQ

Borghans, Lex; Meijers, Huub; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This research provides an economic model of the way people behave during an IQ test. We distinguish a technology that describes how time investment improves performance from preferences that determine how much time people invest in each question. We disentangle these two elements empirically...

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Political inclusion and democracy in Africa : some empirical evidence

Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021

This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...

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Gender political inclusion and democracy in Africa: some empirical evidence

Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2022

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa. This result is robust across alternative...

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