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Patterns and drivers of financial sector growth in the digital age : insights from a study of industrialized economies
Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
robust advancements in labor productivity. Next, the primary drivers of labor productivity growth and convergence across many … not only directly contributed to the augmentation of labor productivity, as quantified through growth accounting … behind the growth and convergence of the financial sector across 13 advanced economies from 2000 to 2015, focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339316
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Patterns and Drivers of Financial Sector Growth in the Digital Age: Insights from a Study of Industrialized Economies
Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
robust advancements in labor productivity. Next, the primary drivers of labor productivity growth and convergence across many … not only directly contributed to the augmentation of labor productivity, as quantified through growth accounting … behind the growth and convergence of the financial sector across 13 advanced economies from 2000 to 2015, focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549361
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The role of governance in quality education in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020
This paper examines the governance-"education quality" nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2000-2012. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Quantile regression (QR) are employed as estimation strategies. The following findings are established. First, from the OLS,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389231
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The Role of Governance in Quality Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas - 2021
This paper examines the governance-“education quality” nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2000-2012. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Quantile regression (QR) are employed as estimation strategies. The following findings are established. First, from the OLS,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244718
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The role of governance in quality education in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020
This paper examines the governance-"education quality" nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2000-2012. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Quantile regression (QR) are employed as estimation strategies. The following findings are established. First, from the OLS,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301777
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Intelligence and slave exports from Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2019
This article examines the role of cognitive ability or intelligence on slave expor ts from Africa. We test a hypothesis that countries which were endowed with higher levels of cognitive ability were more likely to experience lower levels of slave exports from Africa probably due to comparatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998057
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This one is 400 Libyan dinars, this one is 500 : insights from cognitive human capital and slave trade
Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2018
One of the most disturbing contemporary episodes in human history that has been decried globally is the recent Libyan experience of slave trade, where migrants captured end-up being sold as slaves. We contribute to the understanding of this phenomenon by investigating the role of cognitive human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872804
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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 - 2016
policy debate from growth to ‘quality of growth’ (QG). We explore a new dataset on QG by the IMF and classify 93 developing … the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … Performers in terms of ‘quality of growth’. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596364
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Human development thresholds for inclusive mobile banking in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
This study assesses human development thresholds at which mobile banking mitigates poverty and inequality in 93 developing countries for the year 2011. Mobile banking entails: "mobile used to pay bills" and "mobile used to receive/send money", while the modifying policy indicator is the human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956969
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Mobile money innovations and health performance in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Ngoungou, Yolande E.; Nnanna, Joseph - 2023
This study assesses nexuses between mobile money innovations and health performance in terms of total life expectancy in 43 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa employing data for the period 2004-2018. Four mobile money innovation dynamics are proxied with registered mobile money agents and active...
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