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The relevance of an optimal policy mix in the CEMAC zone
Kouam, Jean C.; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
The study analyses the nature of the nexus between budget deficit and economic growth given inflation trends. It … method of moments (GMM) for the empirical evidence. The following results are established: (i) the level of inflation above … reduction of inflation to below 1.8%. Otherwise, any measures put in place by the monetary authorities to stabilize prices would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468206
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Extending the Determinants of Dollarization in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Role of Easy Access to Foreign Exchange Earnings
Raheem, Ibrahim - 2018
This study argues that the ease at which economic agents have access to foreign earnings would influence/increase the level of dollarization in the economy. The three sources of foreign currency earnings are financial integration, trade openness and natural resource rent. As such, we extend the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935555
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The relevance of an optimal policy mix in the CEMAC zone
Kouam, Jean C.; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
The study analyses the nature of the nexus between budget deficit and economic growth given inflation trends. It … method of moments (GMM) for the empirical evidence. The following results are established: (i) the level of inflation above … reduction of inflation to below 1.8%. Otherwise, any measures put in place by the monetary authorities to stabilize prices would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549392
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An empirical retrospect of the impacts of government expenditures on economic growth : new evidence from the Nigerian economy
Onifade, Stephen T.; Çevik, Savaş; Erdoğan, Savaş; … - 2019
The impacts of public expenditures on economic growth have been revisited in this paper with respect to capital expenditure, recurrent expenditure and the government fiscal expansion in line with support for the budgetary allocations to various sectors in the context of the Nigerian economy. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137618
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The criticality of growth, urbanization, electricity and fossil fuel consumption to environment sustainability in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin; Alola, … - 2019
While most African economies are primarily sandwiched with the seemingly unsurmountable task of attaining consistent economic growth and unhindered energy supply, the enormous threat posed by environmental degradation has further complicated the economic and environmental sustainability drive....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137665
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Foreign aid, terrorism and growth : conditional evidence from quantile regression
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2018
In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...
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Introduction
Asongu, Simplice - 2018
This special section aims to advance scholarship on well-being and happiness in Africa. The section covers theoretical, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty, happiness and well-being in Africa.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998545
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Drivers of growth in fast emerging economies : a dynamic instrumental quantile approach to real output and its rates of growth in BRICS and MINT countries, 2001-2011
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Applied econometrics and international development 18 (2018) 1, pp. 5-22
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Insurance policy thresholds for economic growth in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
This study investigates the role of insurance in economic growth on a panel of forty-eight countries in Africa for the period 2004-2014. The research question the study seeks to answer is the following: what thresholds of insurance penetration positively affect economic growth in Africa? The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025638
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The role of institutional infrastructures in financial inclusion-growth relations : evidence from SSA
Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Raheem, Ibrahim Dolapo; Alimi, … - 2020
This paper investigates the role of institutional infrastructures in the financial inclusion-growth nexus for a panel of twenty countries in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA).Employing the System Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), the following insightful outcomes are established. First, while there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242055