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Institutions and poverty : a critical comment based on evolving currents and debates

Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2014

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …-examine their results with a non-monetary and multidimensional poverty indicator first published in 2010. Our findings confirm the … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …

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Middle class in Africa : determinants and consequences

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A.; Kayembe, … - 2014

This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...

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Is poverty in the African DNA (gene)?

Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015

dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … diversity. Hence, poverty is not in the African gene from a within-Africa comparative standpoint. Policy implications are …

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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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Does intelligence affect economic diversification?

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

This paper extends the growing literature on knowledge economy by investigating the effect of intelligence on economic diversification. Using a battery of estimation techniques that are robust to endogeneity, we find that human capital has positive correlations with export diversification,...

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Intelligence, human capital and HIV/AIDS : fresh exploration

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

This study complements existing literature on the relationship between HIV/AIDS and human capital by introducing previously unexplored indicators as well as more robust empirical strategies. The overarching purpose is to assess whether previous findings on the relationship withstand empirical...

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Women in power and power of women : the Liberian experience

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

Do women really improve conditions for gender equality after becoming heads of states? This study investigates if having a woman at the helm of country's decision making processes leads to better indicators on women conditions. Using time series observations for the period 2000-2011, we test the...

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