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Globalization and terror in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2017
This study examines the role of globalization on terrorism in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Four …. Political globalisation, social globalisation and general globalization positively affect unclear terrorism. Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794973
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Globalization in lifelong gender inclusive education for structural transformation in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Bouanza, Jean R. F. K.; … - 2024
The present study examines the relevance of globalization in lifelong gender inclusive education for structural …, secondary and tertiary inclusive education stages. Total globalization and corresponding components (social, economic and … (i.e., interpersonal, informational and cultural) globalization are also employed for robustness purposes. The hypotheses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514159
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Toward the path of economic expansion in Nigeria : the role of trade globalization
Joshua, Udi; Salami, Oladimeji M.; Alola, Andrew A. - 2020
There are debates regarding the effect of globalization on national economies, and whether or not trade openness has a … relationship between trade globalization and Nigeria's economic advancement. The autoregressive distributed lags (ARDL) model was … population growth. The study therefore concluded that trade openness and globalization are necessary for Nigeria’s economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171556
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Global value chain participation and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Obeng, Camara Kwasi; Mwinlaaru, Peter Y.; Ofori, Isaac Kwesi - 2021
Global value chain (GVC) participation has been identified as one of the means by which developing countries can attain inclusive growth yet little attention has been paid to it in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Motivated by the dearth of studies on SSA, we investigate the effect of GVC participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544829
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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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The terrorism-finance nexus contingent on globalisation and governance dynamics in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh - 2021
. Second, the globalization and government dynamics modulate the terrorism dynamics to broadly induce a negative net effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487020
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Economic globalisation and Africa's quest for greener and more inclusive growth : the missing link
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
This study examines the contingency and threshold effects of economic freedom in the economic globalisation (EG) and inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable...
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Party system change and the quality of democracy in East Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to explore in greater detail the nexus between party system change and democratic qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are affected by the instability of the patterns of inter-party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759235
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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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Recent advances in finance for inclusive development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice A.; Moor, Lieven de - 2015
The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408920