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Fighting terrorism in Africa when existing terrorism levels matter

Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa; Asongu, Ndemaze; … - 2019

This study examines policy tools in the fight against terrorism when existing levels of terrorism matter in 53 African countries for the period 1998-2012. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary, non-contemporary and Instrumental Variable Quantile regressions (QR) which enable the...

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The sustainability of tourism: global comparative evidence

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas - 2019

This study investigated the sustainability of global tourism in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. Given the richness of the dataset, the data has been decomposed into 11 fundamental characteristics based on income levels, legal origins and openness to the sea. The empirical evidence was...

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Fighting terrorism in Africa: complementarity between inclusive development, military expenditure and political stability

Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara; Singh, Pritam - 2020

This study examines complementarities between inclusive development, military expenditure and political stability in the fight against terrorism in 53 African countries for the period 1998-2012. Hence the policy variables employed in the study are inclusive development, military expenditure and...

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Political instability and political terror: global evidence on persistence

Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph; Okolo-Obasi, Elda - 2020

-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political … hypotheses are that the following are associated with comparatively higher levels of persistence in political terror and … valid for political terror but not for political instability while Hypothesis 5 is neither valid for political instability …

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Social Media and Inclusive Human Development in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas - 2020

This study investigates the relationship between social media and inclusive human development in 49 African countries for the year 2012. Social media is measured with Facebook penetration whereas inclusive human development is proxied by the inequality- adjusted human development index. The...

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Military Expenditure, Policy Syndromes and Tourism in the World

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023

This study assesses the importance of military expenditure in moderating the role of insecurity dynamics on tourist arrivals or international tourism in 163 countries. It is framed to assess how the future of international tourism can be improved when military expenditure is used as a tool to...

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The terrorism-finance nexus contingent on globalisation and governance dynamics in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nchofoung, Tii - 2021

development from negative to positive are: (i) 71.61572 trade (% of GDP) and 13.97872 FDI (% of GDP) for the incidence of terror … and (ii) 1.16201 trade (% of GDP) for terror deaths. The computed thresholds make economic sense and worthwhile in terms …

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The Impact of Terrorism on Governance in African Countries

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

This study investigates how terrorism affects governance in 53 African countries for the period 1998-2012. Four terrorism indicators are used namely: domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism. Ten bundled and unbundled governance indicators are also employed namely: political...

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Mitigating capital flight through military expenditure: insight from 37 African countries

Asongu, Simplice; Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph - 2017

The purpose of this study is to assess the thresholds at which military expenditure modulates the effect of terrorism on capital flight. We employed a panel data of 37 African countries from 1996-2010.The empirical evidence was based on: (i) baseline contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, (ii)...

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Fighting terrorism in Africa: evidence from bundling and unbundling institutions

Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa; Asongu, Ndemaze; … - 2017

This study assesses government mechanisms in the fight against terrorism with particular emphasis on the bundling and unbundling of ten governance dynamics. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 53 African countries for period 1998-2012 and Generalized Method of Moments. The following...

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