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Social media use for offline political action (OPA) and corruption in Africa : impacts and transmission channels
Ngassam, Sylvain Bertelet; Asongu, Simplice; Ngueleweu, … - 2023
effective civil society participation and the improvement of the quality of democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014368528
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Social media use for offline political action (OPA) and corruption in Africa: impacts and transmission channels
Ngassam, Sylvain Bertelet; Asongu, Simplice; Ngueleweu, … - 2023
effective civil society participation and the improvement of the quality of democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549386
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Political inclusion and democracy in Africa : some empirical evidence
Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021
This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth dynamics, and (ii) the relevance of value added from three economic sectors in modulating the established effect of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799011
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Tourism and income inequality in sub-Saharan African countries : the role of democracy
Jiaqun, Wang; Jotham, Kihumuro; Dossou, Toyo Amegnonna … - 2024
literature, this studyattemmps to fill a gap in the tourism literature by investigating the moderating effect of democracy on the … that tourism and democracy unconditionally worsen income inequality. Moreover, democracy complements tourism to further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514202
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Gender political inclusion and democracy in Africa: some empirical evidence
Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2022
The objective of this study is to examine the effect of political inclusion on democracy in Africa. The results of the … analyses through the OLS, system GMM, IV-Tobit and IV-2SLS show that gender political inclusion enhances democracy in Africa …. This result is robust across alternative specifications of political inclusion and democracy. Besides, the results equally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348474
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The effects of gender political inclusion and democracy on environmental performance : evidence from the method of moments by quantile regression
Asongu, Simplice; Ndour, Cheikh T.; Ngoungou, Judith C. M. - 2023
Motivated by the difficulty of ensuring gender equality and the chaotic state of democracy, we analyze the effects of … gender political inclusion and democracy on environmental policy performance. The study uses a panel of 45 African countries … inclusion and democracy positively affect environmental performance in all quantiles. These positive effects tend to be stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014368535
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Women empowerment and environmental sustainability in Africa
Achuo, Elvis Dze; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2022
This study examines the effect of women's socioeconomic empowerment on environmental sustainability in Africa over the 1996-2019 period. Results of the system Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) estimator reveal that women's socioeconomic empowerment is environment enhancing. Moreover, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817915
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Enhancing ICT for female economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2022
This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic participation in sub-Saharan African nations. Three female economic participation indicators are used, namely female labor force participation, female unemployment and female employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817936
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Inequality Thresholds, Governance and Gender Economic Inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
Inequality and gender economic exclusion are major policy concerns facing sub-Saharan Africa in the post-2015 development agenda. The study provides critical masses of inequality that should not be exceeded if governance is to promote gender economic participation. The research focuses on 42...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868777
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Thresholds of Income Inequality that Mitigate the Role of Gender Inclusive Education in Promoting Gender Economic Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
This study provides thresholds of inequality that should not be exceeded if gender inclusive education is to enhance gender inclusive formal economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalized Method of Moments and data from 42 countries during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858421