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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 … economies were driven by total factor productivity, labor quality, and digital transformation. Lastly, digital transformation … not only directly contributed to the augmentation of labor productivity, as quantified through growth accounting …
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Backwardness advantage and economic growth in the information age : a cross-country empirical study
Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2020
This paper seeks to gain insights into whether developing countries benefit more from the backwardness advantage for economic growth in the Information Age. The paper examines this concern through three complementary approaches. First, it derives theoretical grounds from the existing economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251917
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Trade, Aid and Terror
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
This study assesses the role of foreign aid in reducing the hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on trade using a panel of 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive GMM estimations with forward orthogonal deviations....
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Globalisation, Technology and Global Health
Shobande, Olatunji; Ogbeifun, Lawrence; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
This study explored whether globalisation and technology are harmful to health for a global panel dataset of 52 countries for the period of 1990–2019. The study focused on four continents: Africa, the Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Europe. We used four advanced econometric methodologies, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256005
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Globalisation, technology and global health
Shobande, Olatunji Abdul; Ogbeifun, Lawrence; Asongu, … - 2022
This study explored whether globalisation and technology are harmful to health for a global panel dataset of 52 countries for the period of 1990-2019. The study focused on four continents: Africa, the Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Europe. We used four advanced econometric methodologies, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013389145
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Backwardness advantage and economic growth in the information age : a cross-country empirical study
Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 159 (2020), pp. 1-15
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Education enrollment rate vs employment rate : implications for sustainable human capital development in Nigeria
Adejumo, Opeyemi Oluwabunmi; Asongu, Simplice; Adejumo, … - 2021
The study examines the dynamic interrelationships among the school enrolment rates and the rate of employment (via unemployment rates) in Nigeria. The study employed Autoregressive estimates and an unrestricted VAR approach to analyze these relationships. The study lends credence to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482865
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Mobile phones in the diffusion of knowledge and persistence in inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
The success of inclusive development strategies in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda depends substantially on the adoption of common inclusive development policies among nations. Building on the relevance of a knowledge economy in the post-2015 development agenda, this study models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478775
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Mobile phone innovation and inclusive human development : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Boateng, Agyenim; Akamavi, Raphael - 2016
A recent World Bank report reveals that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523136
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Boosting quality education with inclusive human development : empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
This study examines the importance of inclusive human development in promoting education quality in a panel of forty-nine Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Fixed Effects (FE) and Quantile Regression (QR)...
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