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The role of human development on deforestation in Africa : a modelling-based approach

Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian A. - 2012

The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world …

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

Asongu, Simplice A.; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 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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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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Indices of social development and their application to Africa

Haan, Arjan de; Foa, Roberto - 2014

This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa … minorities. This paper presents how the database can be used to compare the Africa region to global patterns, analyse divergence … across the continent, and explore the implications for our understanding of inclusive growth in Africa. …

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Mobile phones in the diffusion of knowledge and persistence in inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). More specifically, we investigate the complementary role of knowledge diffusion in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478775

The impact of software piracy on inclusive human development : evidence from Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2014

This paper examines two dimensions of the software piracy-development nexus to complement existing formal literature. It empirically assesses the incidence of piracy on the Human Development Index (HDI) and its constituents and then the instrumentality of Intellectual Property Right (IPR)...

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A brief clarification to the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

The study clarifies the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development. It investigates the effect of a plethora of foreign aid dynamics on the inequality adjusted human development index. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM technique with...

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New financial development indicators : with a critical contribution to inequality empirics

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013

The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...

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Globalization and Africa : implications for human development Simplice

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of trade and financial globalization on human development in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). Design/methodology/approach - The estimation technique...

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African development : beyond income convergence

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

homogenous panels based on regions (Sub-Saharan and North Africa), income-levels (low, middle, lower-middle and upper …

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