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The Effects of Remittances on Output Per Worker in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Production Function Approach
Ssozi, John - 2016
This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005521
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Financial Globalisation Uncertainty/Instability Is Good for Financial Development
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
Purpose – This study assesses the effect of time-dynamic financial globalisation uncertainty on financial development in 53 African countries for the period 2000-2011.Design/methodology/approach – Financial globalisation uncertainty is estimated as time-dynamic to capture business cycle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970431
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Are Financial Benefits of Financial Globalization Questionable Until Greater Domestic Financial Development Has Taken Place?
Asongu, Simplice - 2014
Purpose – The issue of which financial initial conditions are necessary to materialize the benefits of financial globalization remains open to debate in the literature. In this paper, we try to put some empirical structure on the concept of financial threshold conditions in order to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047730
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Financial Development Dynamic Thresholds of Financial Globalization : Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
Purpose – The issue of which financial initial conditions are necessary to materialize the benefits of financial globalization remains open to debate in the literature. In this paper, we try to put some empirical structure on the concept of financial threshold conditions in order to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032587
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Financial crisis, financial globalisation and financial development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2020
This study unites two streams of research by simultaneously focusing on the impact of financial globalisation on financial development and pre- and post-crisis dynamics of the investigated relationship. The empirical evidence is based on 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251924
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Assessing marginal, threshold and net effects of financial globalisation on financial development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
The present inquiry contributes to extant literature by simultaneously accounting for variations in financial development and financial globalisation in the assessment of hypothetical initial financial development conditions for the rewards of financial globalisation. For this purpose, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651148
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Globalization and Health Worker Crisis : What Do Wealth-Effects Tell Us?
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health … literature by empirically investigating the WHO hypothetical determinants of health-worker migration in the context of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032581
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Financial crisis, financial globalisation and financial development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2020
This study unites two streams of research by simultaneously focusing on the impact of financial globalisation on financial development and pre- and post-crisis dynamics of the investigated relationship. The empirical evidence is based on 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389203
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Assessing marginal, threshold and net effects of financial globalisation on financial development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
The present inquiry contributes to extant literature by simultaneously accounting for variations in financial development and financial globalisation in the assessment of hypothetical initial financial development conditions for the rewards of financial globalisation. For this purpose, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784873
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Assessing Marginal, Threshold and Net Effects of Financial Globalisation on Financial Development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
The present inquiry contributes to extant literature by simultaneously accounting for variations in financial development and financial globalisation in the assessment of hypothetical initial financial development conditions for the rewards of financial globalisation. For this purpose, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956514