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FDI and growth in the MENA countries : are the GCC countries different?

Gammoudi, Mouna; Cherif, Mondher; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2016

of institutions. These results are confirmed with both annual data and five year average data. …

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On the empirics of institutions and quality of growth : evidence for developing countries

Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015

We explore a newly available dataset on quality of growth to investigate the effect of institutions on growth quality … in 93 developing countries for the period 1990 to 2011. Quality of institutions is measured in term of political risk … established. First, institutions are positively related to the quality of growth. Second, institutions have significantly …

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Backwardness advantage and economic growth in the information age : a cross-country empirical study

Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2020

This paper seeks to gain insights into whether developing countries benefit more from the backwardness advantage for economic growth in the Information Age. The paper examines this concern through three complementary approaches. First, it derives theoretical grounds from the existing economic...

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Quality of growth empirics : comparative gaps, benchmarking and policy syndromes

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

This study uses a new dataset to provide comparative gaps, benchmarking with best performers and policy syndromes of growth quality in 93 developing countries with data for the period 1990-2011. Sigma and Beta estimation strategies are used to provide between and within cross-country...

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On the determinant of financial development in Africa : geography, institutions and macroeconomic policy relevance

Adekunle, Ibrahim A.; Yinusa, Olumuyiwa Ganiyu; … - 2021

While it is clear that financial depth and economic diversity are prerequisites for the realisation of growth and development objectives, heterogeneous factors that determines financial development remains imperfectly understood. This ambiguity in the structural relations between varied...

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Extending the determinants of dollarization in Sub-Saharan Africa : the role of easy access to foreign exchange earnings

Raheem, Ibrahim D.; Asongu, Simplice - 2016

This study argues that the ease at which economic agents have access to foreign earnings would influence/increase the level of dollarization in the economy. The three sources of foreign currency earnings are financial integration, trade openness and natural resource rent. As such, we extend the...

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Human rights in Sub Saharan Africa : understanding the influence of militarization, governance and democracy

Iheonu, Chimere Okechukwu; Agbutun, Shedrach A.; … - 2021

This study provides empirical evidence on the impact of militarization, governance, and democracy on human rights in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period 2002 to 2018. The study employed the instrumental variable Fixed Effects model to account for simultaneity/reverse causality, and...

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An empirical analysis of human trafficking in an era of globalization

Malah, Yselle F.; Asongu, Simplice - 2021

The paper explores the dark side of economic openness by examining empirically the nexus between the globalization process and human trafficking. Specifically, it is about showing in a global perspective how the growing process of free movement of people, goods, capital, services and information...

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Dollarization and the "unbundling" of globalization in sub-Saharan Africa

Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Raheem, Ibrahim Dolapo; Asongu, … - 2018

This study contributes to the dollarization literature by expanding its determinants to account for different dimensions of globalization, using the widely employed KOF index of globalization. Specifically, globalization is "unbundled" into three different layers namely : economic, social and...

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FDI, aid, terrorism : conditional threshold evidence from developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2015

We investigate how foreign aid dampens the effects of terrorism on FDI using interactive quantile regressions. The empirical evidence is based on 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilateral and multilateral aid variables are used, while terrorism dynamics entail: domestic,...

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