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New Financial Development Indicators: With a Critical Contribution to Inequality Empirics

Asongu, Simplice A. - In: Manager Journal 4 (2014) 1, pp. 33-50

The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...

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The impact of liberalisation policies on income inequality in african countries

Enowbi Batuo, Michael; Asongu, Simplice A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Despite over three decades of Liberalisation policies in Africa, income-inequality has stayed persistently high. Using updated panel data of 26 African countries spanning the period 1996-2010, this study examines the effect of liberalisation policies with particular focus on financial, trade,...

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The “knowledge economy”–finance nexus in SSA and MENA countries

Asongu, Simplice A. - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 7 (2014) July, pp. 200-213

Purpose –This paper aims to assess dynamics of the knowledge economy (KE)–finance nexus using the four variables identified under the World Bank’s (WB’s) Knowledge Economy Index (KEI) and seven financial intermediary dynamics of depth, efficiency, activity and size....

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Inequality, poverty and quality of institutions: which freedom channels of globalization matter for Africa?

Asongu, Simplice A. - In: European Economic Letters 2 (2013) 1, pp. 24-31

which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure … (poverty). Hence, economic freedom does not stop the wealthy from growing wealthier, but at the same time provides for … conditions that mitigate poverty. The findings broadly show that, despite the substantially documented negative incidences of …

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How do institutions matter in the income-equalizing effect of mobile phone penetration?

Asongu, Simplice A. - In: European Economic Letters 2 (2013) 2, pp. 56-61

-specific and microeconomic survey-based approaches is on 52 African countries. ‘Mobile phone’-oriented poverty reduction channels …

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