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On the Effect of State fragility on Corruption
Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data …/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266296
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Crime and Conflicts in Africa : Consequences of Corruption?
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
With earthshaking and jaw-breaking levels of corruption in the African continent, the question on the extent to which … corruption influences crime still remains unanswered. This paper assesses the effect of corruption (corruption-control) in 38 … African countries using updated data. We find that, crime is highly positively (negatively) correlated with corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032567
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A good turn deserves another : political stability, corruption and corruption-control
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate … corruption-control. On the other hand, in the absence such impunity from corruption, political instability further fuels … corruption. Our findings validate both hypotheses. Hence, contrary to a stream of the literature, we establish causal evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407942
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On the Effect of State Fragility on Corruption
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data …/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023704
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New financial development indicators: with a critical contribution to inequality empirics
Asongu, Simplice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109487
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Dynamic Openness and Finance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Minkoua N., Jules R. - 2017
This study assesses dynamics of openness and finance in Africa by integrating financial development dynamics of depth, activity and size in the assessment of how financial, trade, institutional, political and other openness policies (of second generation structural and institutional reforms)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784898
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The macroeconomic impact of recent political conflicts in Africa: Generalized synthetic counterfactual evidence
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021
This paper measures the macroeconomic impact of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the generalized synthetic control method and evaluates the role played by natural resource dependence on the modulation of the impact. We find that political crisis, protests and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801029
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Mitigating the macroeconomic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa: Policy synergies
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021
This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalized synthetic control method. In other words, it assesses how gross domestic product (GDP) would have been affected if severe natural disasters did not occur. Moreover, it explores the determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872979
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Not all that glitters is gold: Political stability and trade in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Kossele, Thales P. Yapatake; Nnanna, … - 2021
This study examines linkages between political stability and trade openness dynamics in a panel of 44 countries in SSA from 1996 to 2016. The empirical evidence is based on the generalized method of moments. From the findings, the negative relationship between political stability and merchandise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652966
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The impact of Covid-19 and Russia-Ukraine war on food prices in fragile countries: Misfortunes never come singly
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
The objective of the paper is to evaluate whether there is a change in the level or trend of food prices in fragile countries following the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. The empirical evidence is based on Interrupted Time Series Analysis. The following findings are established....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278266