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Financial development and human capital thresholds for the infrastructure development-industrialization nexus in Africa
Nkemgha, Guivis Zeufack; Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; … - 2022
Examining the value-added link between infrastructure and industrialization is fundamental to achieving Sustainable … Development Goal (SDG) 9, which consists of building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable … industrialisation in Africa. When the indirect effect regressions through the modulating effects of financial development and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461773
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On the dynamic effects of foreign aid on corruption
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional proximity, openness to sea, natural resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408498
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Foreign aid, investment and fiscal policy behavior : theory and empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jellal, Mohammed - 2014
The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409169
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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
We extend the Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB) debate on 'the effect of foreign aid on corruption' by: not partially negating the former's methodological underpinning (as in the latter's approach) with a unifying empirical framework and; broadening the horizon of inquiry from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409986
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Institutional benchmarking of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Africa. (2) But for a thin exception (democracy), foreign-aid is more negatively correlated with countries of higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410060
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Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The panel quantile regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410235
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Thresholds of external flows for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It complements the literature by examining the relevance of enhancing three types of external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052992
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A development consensus reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus : views and agenda
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal Institutional Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409248
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Bridging Africa's income inequality gap : how relevant is China's outward FDI to Africa?
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Dossou, Toyo A. M.; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2021
In line with the SDG 10 and Aspiration 1 of Africa's Agenda 2063, this study examines whether: (i) the remarkable … inflow of Chinese FDI to Africa matters for bridging the continent's marked income inequality gap, (ii) Africa …'s institutional fabric is effective in propelling Chinese FDI towards the equalisation of incomes in Africa, and (iii) there exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799903
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Effect of women's political inclusion on the level of infrastructures in Africa
Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2022
demonstrated trend of infrastructures in Africa in terms of stocks and future need is unique compared to the rest of the world. The … development in Africa. The results through the system GMM and Quantile Regression techniques show that women’s political … inclusion enhances infrastructural development in Africa. The result is robust across different measures of infrastructures and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041380