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Global health care infrastructure and Africa in times of Covid-19 : insights for sustainable development and future pandemics

Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2020

This exploratory study aims to assess Africa's lagging position in global heath in relation to some health care … infrastructure before critically examining the situation of Africa in the light of pressing Covid-19 healthcare infrastructural needs … analysis is provided to showcase which regions are leading in the health facilities in the world in general and Africa in …

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The non-linear effects of fixed broadband on economic growth in Africa

Kouam, Jean C.; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

The study assesses the non-linear nexus between fixed broadband and economic growth. It focuses on data from 33 African countries for the period 2010 to 2020. The empirical evidence is based on unit root tests, panel smooth transition regression, and the generalized method of moments. The...

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Unjust enrichment from official corruption in Africa : theory and model on how lenders have benefited

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …

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Foreign aid volatility and lifelong learning: demand-side empirics to a textual literature

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015

learning in Africa. Practical implications- As a policy implication, when faced with aid uncertainty, the demand for education …

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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...

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Rational asymmetric development, Piketty and the spirit of poverty in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

The study extends the implications of Piketty's celebrated literature from developed countries to the nexus between developed nations and African countries by building on responses from Rogoff (2014) & Stiglitz (2014), post Washington Consensus paradigms and underpinnings from Solow-Swan &...

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Foreign aid and governance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2014

influence the election and replacement of political leaders in Africa may have insignificant results. It is time to solve the … paper extends the debate on foreign aid and institutions in Africa in the light a plethora of recent studies in the aid …

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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...

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A brief clarification to the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

The study clarifies the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development. It investigates the effect of a plethora of foreign aid dynamics on the inequality adjusted human development index. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM technique with...

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Foreign aid and corruption : clarifying murky empirical conclusions

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Beecroft, Ibukun; Asongu, … - 2014

This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing heterogeneity dimension of aid. The relationship was estimated using dynamic system GMM and quantile regressions (QR). Results show that both narratives in the debate are...

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