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Insurance policy thresholds for economic growth in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
This study investigates the role of insurance in economic growth on a panel of forty-eight countries in Africa for the … period 2004-2014. The research question the study seeks to answer is the following: what thresholds of insurance penetration … positively affect economic growth in Africa? The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Life insurance …
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Pre- and post-crisis dynamics of financial globalisation for financial development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Moor, Lieven de; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2015
-crisis period. Fourth, the net effect from the: pre-crisis period is lower on money supply and banking system efficiency; post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410623
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Law, economic growth and human development : evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of economic and inequality adjusted human developments....
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Revolution empirics : predicting the Arab Spring
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2014
The paper examines whether the Arab Spring phenomenon was predictable by complete elimination in the dispersion of core demands for better governance, more jobs and stable consumer prices. A methodological innovation of the Generalized Methods of Moments is employed to assess the feasibility and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409159
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An empirical retrospect of the impacts of government expenditures on economic growth : new evidence from the Nigerian economy
Onifade, Stephen T.; Çevik, Savaş; Erdoğan, Savaş; … - 2019
The impacts of public expenditures on economic growth have been revisited in this paper with respect to capital expenditure, recurrent expenditure and the government fiscal expansion in line with support for the budgetary allocations to various sectors in the context of the Nigerian economy. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137618
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The criticality of growth, urbanization, electricity and fossil fuel consumption to environment sustainability in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin; Alola, … - 2019
While most African economies are primarily sandwiched with the seemingly unsurmountable task of attaining consistent economic growth and unhindered energy supply, the enormous threat posed by environmental degradation has further complicated the economic and environmental sustainability drive....
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Foreign aid, terrorism and growth : conditional evidence from quantile regression
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2018
In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...
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Introduction
Asongu, Simplice - 2018
This special section aims to advance scholarship on well-being and happiness in Africa. The section covers theoretical, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty, happiness and well-being in Africa.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998545
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The role of institutional infrastructures in financial inclusion-growth relations : evidence from SSA
Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Raheem, Ibrahim Dolapo; Alimi, … - 2020
This paper investigates the role of institutional infrastructures in the financial inclusion-growth nexus for a panel of twenty countries in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA).Employing the System Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), the following insightful outcomes are established. First, while there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242055
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The impact of tourism development on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Nyasha, Sheilla; Odhiambo, Nicholas M.; Asongu, Simplice - 2020
This study examines the dynamic impact of tourism development on economic growth in subSaharan Africa (SSA) using the Generalised Method of Moments and data covering the period from 2002 to 2018. The increasingly important role of tourism and the limelight the tourism sector has been enjoying of...
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