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A survey on the Washington Consensus and the Beijing Model : reconciling development perspectives

Asongu, Simplice; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - In: International review of economics : journal of civil economy 67 (2020) 2, pp. 111-129

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A survey on the Washington Consensus and the Beijing Model : reconciling development perspectives

Asongu, Simplice; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2019

State and market failures but failed to provide a unified theory, the former has left the challenging concern of how …-run respectively. While the paper postulates for a unified theory by reconciling the WC and the BM to complement the NSE, it at the … unifying a development theory and to the LIP literature on institutional preferences with stages of development. Hence, the …

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Quality of growth empirics : comparative gaps, benchmarking and policy syndromes

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 39 (2017) 5, pp. 861-882

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Quality of growth empirics : comparative gaps, benchmarking and policy syndromes

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

This study uses a new dataset to provide comparative gaps, benchmarking with best performers and policy syndromes of growth quality in 93 developing countries with data for the period 1990-2011. Sigma and Beta estimation strategies are used to provide between and within cross-country...

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Welfare spending and quality of growth in developing countries : a note on evidence from hopefuls, contenders and best performers

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the policy debate from growth to 'quality of growth' (QG). We explore a new dataset on QG by the IMF and classify 93 developing countries for the period 1990-2011 in terms of Hopefuls,...

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Foreign aid and corruption : clarifying murky empirical conclusions

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Beecroft, Ibukun; Asongu, … - 2014

This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing heterogeneity dimension of aid. The relationship was estimated using dynamic system GMM and quantile regressions (QR). Results show that both narratives in the debate are...

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Challenges of doing business in Africa : a systematic review

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Contemporary issues and prospects in business …, (pp. 105-114). 2020

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Foreign aid, instability and governance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2019

This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996-2010. An autoregressive...

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Challenges of doing business in Africa : a systematic review

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018

This paper provides a systematic review of challenges to doing business in Africa. It complements the extant literature by answering two critical questions: what are the linkages between the ease of doing business and economic development; and what are the challeng es to doing business in...

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Foreign aid volatility and lifelong learning

Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019

This paper has put a demand-side empirical structure to the hypothesis that foreign aid volatility adversely affects choices to lifelong learning in recipient countries. Lifelong learning is measured as the combined knowledge acquired during primary, secondary and tertiary educational...

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