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Climate Change and Agricultural Productivity in West Africa

Iheonu, Chimere; Asongu, Simplice; Emeka, Ekene Thankgod; … - 2022

’s productivity in recent times. In this study, we investigate the heterogeneous long-run relationship between climate change and … agricultural productivity in West Africa from 1990 to 2020. Using the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) and the Common Correlated Effect … Mean Group (CCEMG) estimators, we show that rising temperatures significantly reduce agricultural productivity in Gambia …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Information Technology and Total Factor Productivity Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas - 2022

) is very high. Unfortunately, productivity levels in the region are also very low. This study investigates the importance … of information technology in influencing the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP … penetration, while the engaged TFP productivity dynamics are TFP, real TFP, welfare TFP, and real welfare TFP. The empirical …

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Climate change and agricultural productivity in West Africa

Iheonu, Chimere Okechukwu; Asongu, Simplice; Emeka, … - 2022

's productivity in recent times. In this study, we investigate the heterogeneous long-run relationship between climate change and … agricultural productivity in West Africa from 1990 to 2020. Using the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) and the Common Correlated Effect … Mean Group (CCEMG) estimators, we show that rising temperatures significantly reduce agricultural productivity in Gambia …

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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...

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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....

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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.

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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...

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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...

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