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Ethnic diversity and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa : do institutions reduce the noise?
Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Alimi, OlorunfemiY.; Asongu, Simplice - 2019
role of institutions as a mediating factor in the ethnicity-inequality nexus has not received the scholarly attention it … income disparityeven when interacted with institutions. On the policy front, institutional reforms tailored toward economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997604
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Political instability and political terror : global evidence on persistence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2020
We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181789
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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
inequality relationships. This factor reflects democractic institutions of the destination country. To contribute to the tourism … 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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New Financial Development Indicators : With a Critical Contribution to Inequality Empirics
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
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/10013032545
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Digital divide, globalization and income inequality in sub-Saharan African countries : analysing cross-country heterogeneity
Ndoya, Hermann; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of digital divide on income inequality in subSaharan Africa over the period 2004-2016. In applying a finite mixture model (FMM) to a sample of 35 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, this study posits that digital divide affects income inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380610
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Law, Democracy and the Quality of Government in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2014
components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A … democracy that takes into account only the voice of the majority is better in government quality than autocracy, while a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047734
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Ethnic diversity and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: Do institutions reduce the noise?
Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Alimi, Olorunfemi Y.; Asongu, Simplice - 2019
role of institutions as a mediating factor in the ethnicity-inequality nexus has not received the scholarly attention it … income disparityeven when interacted with institutions. On the policy front, institutional reforms tailored toward economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112139
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The Arab Spring was predictable in 2007 : empirics of proof
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017
We model core demands for better governance (political, economic and institutional), more employment and less consumer price inflation using a methodological innovation on the complete elimination of cross-country differences in signals susceptible of sparking social revolts. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794969
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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/10012416519
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The comparative inclusive human development of globalisation in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542429