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Do female parliamentarians improve environmental quality? : cross-country evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Salahodjaev, Raufhon - 2022
This study explores the empowerment of women in politics on the environmental sustainability. Using data for the period 2015-2019 from 179 countries, we investigate the link between representation of women in parliament and the Environmental Performance Index (EPI). To explore the causal effect,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815608
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Institutions and poverty : a critical comment based on evolving currents and debates
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2014
Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty … eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409163
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Law, politics and the quality of government in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496387
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Finance and democracy in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious-domination, income-levels and colonial-legacies. The main findings are summarized as follows. Authoritarian regimes have a higher propensity to effect policies that favour the development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410331
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Law, democracy and the quality of government in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper examines the big questions of African comparative politics. It assesses the interaction of three crucial components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with income-levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410343
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Trust institutions, perceptions of economic performance and the mitigating role of political diversity in sub-Saharan Africa
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
mitigates the positive relationship between trust institutions and national economic performance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using … Round 7 data of Afrobarometer in over 1000 districts in 34 countries, we find that trust institutions positively and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233352
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Trust institutions, perceptions of economic performance and the mitigating role of political diversity
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
positive relationship between trust institutions and national economic performance in Africa. Using Round 7 data of … Afrobarometer in over 1000 districts in 34 countries, we find that trust institutions positively and significantly affect economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013375382
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Growth and institutions in African development
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407947
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only what made it possible but also and more importantly what risk factors may eventually bring it to an end or compromise it. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794986
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Assessing the moderating effect of institutional quality on economic growth : carbon emission nexus in Nigeria
Maduka, Anne C.; Ogwu, Stephen Obinozie; Ekesiobi, … - 2022
This study explores the relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide and the moderating effect of institutional quality in Nigeria from 1990 to 2020, by employing long run and short run dynamic ARDL regression, quartile regression and granger causality test for the estimation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177454