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A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of sustainable development goals : cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe

Adu-Gyamfi, Richard; Asongu, Simplice; Mmusi, Tinaye S.; … - 2020

The objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania … programmes. We found that firms in Kenya and Zimbabwe have a higher number of male than female employees, while zones in Tanzania …

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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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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : a survey

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

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Foreign aid and sustainable inclusive human development in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2018

Motivated by evidence that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa, the study contributes to the literature on reinventing foreign aid by assessing if development assistance can sustain inclusive human development. The empirical evidence is...

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Increasing foreign aid for inclusive human development in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

In the light of evidence that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the World with the exception of Africa, where about 45 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target. Therefore, this study assesses whether...

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Thresholds of external flows in financial development for environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Mensah, Barbara D.; Ngoungou, Judith C. M. - 2022

The study complements extant literature by assessing linkages between financial development, external flows and CO2 emissions in 27 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2002 to 2018. The empirical evidence is based on interactive quantile regressions and external flows consist of...

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Multinational oil companies in Nigeria and Corporate Social Responsibility in the HIV/AIDS response in host communities

Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.; Asongu, Simplice - 2019

We assess the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) of multinational oil companies (MOCs) on HIV/AIDS … not significantly impacted on factors behind the spread of HIV/AIDS in rural communities. This implies that the impact of … inclined downward. The findings suggest that CSR offers an opportunity for MOCs to help address HIV/AIDS prevalence through a …

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