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A Development Consensus reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus: Views and Agenda
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 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/10010887031
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The Evolving Debate on the Effect of Foreign Aid on Corruption and Institutions in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It entails a series of publications that have been successively motivated by feedbacks from academic and policy making circles. The plethora of papers explores debates sustaining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887032
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Knowledge Economy Gaps, Policy Syndromes and Catch-up Strategies: Fresh South Korean Lessons to Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
Africa’s overall knowledge index fell between 2000 and 2009. South Korea’s economic miracle is largely due to a … knowledge economies. Using updated data (1996-2010), this paper presents fresh South Korean lessons to Africa by assessing the … syndromes and compelling catch-up strategies are discussed. Issues standing on the way to KE in Africa are dissected with great …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887033
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International aid, corruption and fiscal policy behavior
Asongu, Asongu Simplice; Jellal, Jellal Mohamed - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
The Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB; 2013, EEL) debate on ‘the effect of foreign aid on corruption’ has had an important influence in policy and academic circles. This paper provides a unifying framework by using investment and fiscal behavior transmission channels in 53...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887036
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Boosting scientific publications in Africa: which IPRs protection channels matter?
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
This paper examines how Africa’s share in the contribution to global scientific knowledge can be boosted with existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887038
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Knowledge Economy and Financial Sector Competition in African Countries
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
The goal of this paper is to assess how knowledge economy (KE) plays out in financial sector competition. It suggests a practicable way to disentangle the effects of different components of KE on various financial sectors. The variables identified under the World Bank’s four knowledge economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887039
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Law, Economic Growth and Human Development: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
-law countries provide for better legal systems that improve conditions for economic growth and human development than French civil …-law countries. Portuguese civil-law countries lie between the French-speaking and North African countries, while French sub …-Saharan Africa is slightly below the average of Francophone Africa. As a policy implication, results support the benefits of the rule …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862076
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Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The panel quantile regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862077
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Deforestation and Welfare: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862078
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How would monetary policy matter in the proposed African monetary unions? Evidence from output and prices
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013
We analyze the effects of monetary policy on economic activity in the proposed African monetary unions. Findings broadly show that: (1) but for financial efficiency in the EAMZ, monetary policy variables affect output neither in the short-run nor in the long-term and; (2) with the exception of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862079