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Foreign direct investment, information technology and economic growth dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
investment (FDI) on economic growth dynamics in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1980-2014. The employed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025644
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Promoting gender - equitable agricultural value chains : the role of corporate social responsibility in Nigeria's Niger Delta
Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2022
responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of the global memorandum of understanding … significant relationship between GMoU model and gender-equitable agricultural value chains in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Practical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419127
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ICT adoption, competition and innovation of informal firms in West Africa : comparative study of Ghana and Nigeria
Karakara, Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel; Osabuohien, Evans - 2020
the cases of Ghana and Nigeria. Design/methods/approach - The study used the World Bank Enterprise Survey data 2014 for … Ghana and Nigeria with binary logistic regression analysis to achieve this. Four different innovations are modelled. They …, these effects varied markedly between Ghana and Nigeria. Firms' spending on R&D, firm giving its employees the chance to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214477
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Foreign direct investment, domestic investment and green growth in Nigeria : any spillovers?
Adejumo, Akintoye Victor; Asongu, Simplice - 2019
domestic or foreign investments in Nigeria. The results show that domestic investment increases CO2 emissions in the short run … investment, though may be exogenous to growth, has been identified to bring about productivity and ecological spillovers. In view … investments on green growth in Nigeria during the period 1970-2017. The empirical evidence is based on Auto-regressive Distributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115869
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Foreign Direct Investment, Information Technology and Total Factor Productivity Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2022
of information technology in influencing the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887916
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Enhancing Information Technology for Value Added Across Economic Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Rahman, Mushfiqur; Nnanna, Joseph; … - 2020
This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects value added across sectors in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa using data for the period 1980-2014. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments. The following findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271442
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Governance, debt service, information technology and access to electricity in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara - 2024
The study investigates the role of governance (i.e., 'voice & accountability', political stability/no violence, regulatory quality, government effectiveness, corruption-control and the rule of law) in the incidence of short-term debt services on infrastructure development in the perspective of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514255
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Enhancing ICT for productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa : thresholds for complementary policies
Asongu, Simplice; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2020
The purpose of this research is to investigate the relevance of enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) on dynamics of total factor productivity (TFP) in 25 Sub-Saharan African countries using data covering the period 1980-2014. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171358
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Information technology, inequality and adult literacy in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M.; Rahman, Mushfiqur - 2023
The study assesses linkages between information technology, inequality and adult literacy in 57 developing countries for the period 2012-2016. Income inequality is measured with the Gini coefficient while six dynamics of information technology are taken on board, namely: use of virtual social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233350
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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) as catalyst for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) at the local level in Africa
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
This study evaluates if information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play a role of catalyst for the achievement of most of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at local level in African countries. We use the Afrobarometer Round 7 Surveys, and base our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419123