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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408920
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Interconnections between governance and socioeconomic conditions : understanding Sub-Saharan African challenges
Fagbemi, Fisayo; Nzeribe, Geraldine E.; Osinubi, … - 2021
Given that challenges facing sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries on the issue of socioeconomic development have been identified as critical to strengthening the inherent link between governance and socioeconomic conditions, this study examines the interconnections between governance and SSA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799928
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Historical prevalence of infectious diseases and gender equality in 122 countries
Messono, Omang Ombolo; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2022
analysis may take these findings into account and incorporate disease pathogens into the design of international social policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193681
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Leveraging foreign direct investment for sustainability : an approach to sustainable human development in Nigeria
Fagbemi, Fisayo; Osinubi, Tolulope Temilola - 2020
adopt policy measures that could engender the sustainable development of human capital by the government, while the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321100
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Culture and economic development in Africa - opportunities and challenges
Kuada, John E. - 2020
This paper forwards the view that some aspects of African culture enhance economic development on the continent while other aspects tend to constrain development. By drawing on the extant literature on culture and development, the paper discusses the manner in which economic activities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271412
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Political instability and political terror : global evidence on persistence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2020
We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181789
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Enhancing ICT for environmental sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2017
consumption. Policy thresholds at which ICT can change the net effects from positive to negative are computed and discussed. These … policy thresholds are the minimum levels of ICT required, for the effect of ICT on CO2 emissions to be negative. Other … practical implications for policy and theory are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730209
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Recent finance advances in information technology for inclusive development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017
The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We survey about 180 recently published papers to provide recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638882
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Recent finance advances in information technology for inclusive development : a systematic review
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2018
The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We systematically review about 180 recently published papers to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998250
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Information sharing and conditional financial development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Anyanwu, John C.; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2016
information sharing throughout the conditional distributions of financial development dynamics. The policy relevance of the QR … are characterised by S-shaped, Kuznets or wave-like patterns. As a main policy implication, initial conditions in … financial development are essential to materialise incremental benefits from PCR and PCB. Other policy implications are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417477