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Corruption, economic growth and the informal sector : empirical evidence from developing countries
Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Njoya, Loudi; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817792
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817802
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590001
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Fiscal vulnerability and transport infrastructure development in Nigeria
Oseni, Isiaq O.; Adekunle, Ibrahim A.; Ogunade, Ayomide … - 2020
In spite of the massive revenue emanating from oil wealth, the successive government of Nigeria failed to give to its citizenry the dividend of democracy owing in large part to their inability to establish a market clearing situation because of inadequate linkage between the sources and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251929
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Military expenditure, terrorism and capital flight : insights from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph - 2016
In spite of the growing consensus of the need to utilise military expenditure to help combat terrorism, our understanding of the threshold at which military expenditure reduces the effect of terrorism stemming from capital flight remains largely underexplored. We employed a panel data of 37...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496373
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Contemporary drivers of global tourism : evidence from terrorism and peace factors
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph; Biekpe, Nicholas; … - 2018
This study examines the effect of terrorism and peace on tourist destination arrivals using a panel of 163 countries with data for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments and Negative Binomial (NB) regressions. Our best estimators are from NB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998657
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Mitigating capital flight through military expenditure : insight from 37 African countries
Asongu, Simplice; Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph - 2017
The purpose of this study is to assess the thresholds at which military expenditure modulates the effect of terrorism on capital flight. We employed a panel data of 37 African countries from 1996-2010.The empirical evidence was based on: (i) baseline contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698476
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The comparative African economics of inclusive development and military expenditure in fighting terrorism
Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa; Asongu, Ndemaze; … - 2017
This study investigates the role of inclusive human development and military expenditure in fighting terrorism in 53 African countries for the period 1998-2012. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary, non-contemporary and instrumental variable Fixed Effects regressions. Inclusive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698479
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Global tourism and waves of terror : perspectives from military expenditure
Asongu, Simplice; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2019
This study complements existing literature by investigating how military expenditure can modulate the effect of terrorism externalities on tourism. The geographical and temporal scopes are 163 countries and the period 2010-2015. The empirical evidence is based on negative binomial regressions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105110
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The role of inclusive development and military expenditure in modulating the effect of terrorism on governance
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Le Roux, Sara - 2018
. There is a negative net effect on governance (regulation quality and corruption-control) when inclusive human development is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879039