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The role of economic prosperity on informality in Africa : evidence of corruption thresholds from PSTR
Njoya, Loudi; Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022
. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption … proxy is measured as a decreasing function of corruption such that higher levels of the corruption proxy translate lower …
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Ethnic diversity and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa : do institutions reduce the noise?
Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Alimi, OlorunfemiY.; Asongu, Simplice - 2019
Studies on the causes of income differences between the rich and the poor have received an extensive attention in the inequality empirics. While ethnic diversity h asalso been identified as one of the fundamental causes of income inequality, the role of institutions as a mediating factor in the...
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Globalization, (fighting) corruption and development : how are these phenomena linearly and nonlinearly related in wealth effects?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings … corruption (corruption-control) effects. Thus the intuition is assessing how globalization is instrumental in the fight against … corruption through human development (economic and social dimensions) and government quality (political dimension). Findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410065
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The terrorism-finance nexus contingent on globalisation and governance dynamics in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh - 2021
This study empirically verifies the effect of terrorism on financial development and how globalisation and governance modulate the incidence of terrorism on financial development in Africa. Two terrorism indicators are adopted for this study, namely, the: number of terrorism incidences and...
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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 … on corruption is most significant in: Middle-income, French civil-law, Christian-dominated, non-oil exporting and …
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Bridging Africa's income inequality gap : how relevant is China's outward FDI to Africa?
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Dossou, Toyo A. M.; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2021
stability, low corruption, and voice and accountability are keys. Finally, critical masses required for these three key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799903
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Foreign direct investment, governance and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Asongu, Simplice - 2021
FDI and various governance indicators (rule of law, control of corruption, regulatory quality, governance effectiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544875
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Global value chain participation and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Obeng, Camara Kwasi; Mwinlaaru, Peter Y.; Ofori, Isaac Kwesi - 2021
Global value chain (GVC) participation has been identified as one of the means by which developing countries can attain inclusive growth yet little attention has been paid to it in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Motivated by the dearth of studies on SSA, we investigate the effect of GVC participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544829
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Towards building shared prosperity in Sub-Saharan Africa : how does the effect of economic integration compare to social equity policies?
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi - 2021
The debate on the need for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to foster inclusive growth has intensified following the coming into force of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic. A conspicuous lacuna in the literature is a lack of...
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Globalization in lifelong gender inclusive education for structural transformation in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Bouanza, Jean R. F. K.; … - 2024
The present study examines the relevance of globalization in lifelong gender inclusive education for structural transformation. The focus of the research is on 41 countries in Africa using data from 2004 to 2021. The generalized method of moments (GMM) is employed to assess the problem statement...
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