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Fighting African Conflicts and Crimes: Which Governance Tools Matter?
Asongu, Asongu Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013
Crimes and conflicts are seriously undermining African development. This article assesses the best governance tools in the fight against the scourges. The following findings are established. (1) Democracy, autocracy and voice & accountability have no significant negative correlations with crime....
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Religious Diversity and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: So Far So Good
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Agbor, Julius Agbor - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 1
This paper investigates the effects of religion on a broad set of development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. We …-Saharan Africa. However, our findings do suggest that religion has important effects on the development process through its effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938848
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Governance and Intelligence: Empirical Analysis from African Data
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 1
This study aims at testing the relationship between intelligence and governance. It is based on African data. This study find s that countries with high-IQ populations generally enjoy good governance. Governance and Intelligence are found to mutually reinforce each other in a robust relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938934
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Religious Diversity and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: So Far So Good
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Agbor, Julius Agbor - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 1
This paper investigates the effects of religion on a broad set of development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. We …-Saharan Africa. However, our findings do suggest that religion has important effects on the development process through its effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941217
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Governance and Intelligence: Empirical Analysis from African Data
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 1
This study aims at testing the relationship between intelligence and governance. It is based on African data. This study find s that countries with high-IQ populations generally enjoy good governance. Governance and Intelligence are found to mutually reinforce each other in a robust relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941224
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Forget your gods: African evidence on the relation between state capacity and cognitive ability of leading politicians
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
capacity. Given the evidence that cognitive ability of leading politicians’ affects state capacity positively, except Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260595
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Middle class in Africa: Determinants and Consequences
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264823
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Is Poverty in the African DNA (Gene)?
Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015
A 2015 World Bank report on attainment of Millennium Development Goals concludes that the number of extremely poor has … dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013, AER) and reformulating the ‘Out of Africa Hypothesis’ into a ‘Genetic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265219
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Shadow economy and tax revenue in Africa
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Mutascu, Mihai - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 1, pp. 469-479
The paper explores the effects of shadow economy on tax revenues, in the case of several African countries, based on a panel-model approach. The dataset covers the period 1999-2007. The main results reveal that the change in shadow economy has a significant and negative impact on change in tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010835811
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Crime and conflicts in Africa: consequences of corruption?
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - In: European Economic Letters 2 (2013) 2, pp. 50-55
in the birth and propagation of conflicts within and across Africa. Policy implications are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840469