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Sustainable urbanization and vulnerability to climate change in Africa : accounting for digitalization and institutional quality

Yeyouomo, Aurelien Kamden; Asongu, Simplice - 2023

This study empirically examines the effect of sustainable urbanization on vulnerability to climate change over a sample … that sustainable urbanization reduces vulnerability to climate change. The results of the indirect analysis also show that … sustainable urbanization significantly reduces vulnerability to climate change through the channels of digitalization and …

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Promoting environmental sustainability in Africa : evidence from governance synergy

Traoré, Awa; Ndour, Cheikh T.; Asongu, Simplice - 2023

composite governance indicator has a negative effect on CO2 emissions. Moreover, urbanization, economic growth, trade and …

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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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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : Kuznets, Piketty and the great policy reversal

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of Piketty. Abandoning the former's view that inequality...

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Recent advances in finance for inclusive development : a survey

Asongu, Simplice A.; Moor, Lieven de - 2015

The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...

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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : a survey

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

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The mobile phone in governance for environmental sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nting, Rexon T. - 2021

In this study, we assess how the mobile phone can be leveraged upon to improve the role of governance in environmental sustainability in 44 Sub-Saharan African countries. The Generalised Method of Moments is used to establish policy thresholds. A threshold is a critical mass or level of mobile...

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Foreign direct investment, governance and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Asongu, Simplice - 2021

Motivated by the projected rebound of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) following the implementation of the AfCFTA and the finalization of the Africa Investment Protocol, we examine how FDI modulates the effects of various governance dynamics on inclusive growth...

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Tourism, ICT and inclusive development: global evidence

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

This study empirically examines the effect of tourism and ICT on inclusive development. Inclusive development is approached as human development adjusted for environmental sustainability; ICT is based on mobile phones subscription rate, internet penetration and fixed broadband subscription and a...

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Globalization, governance and the Green Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa : policy thresholds

Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2021

This study assesses how globalization modulates the effect of governance on CO2 emissions in sub-Saharan African countries. The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. The minimum level (or negative threshold) of FDI required for it to interact with political stability and...

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