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On foreign aid distortions to governance
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could seriously affect debates in academic and policy making circles. Using the theoretical underpinnings of the celebrated Eubank (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390868
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A Development Consensus reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus: Views and Agenda
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390877
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Conditional Determinants of Mobile Phones Penetration and Mobile Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
, business/bank, market-related, knowledge economy, external flows and human development. The empirical evidence is based on … development, especially in the contemporary specifications. Fourth, mobile banking is positively linked with: (i) trade in …) internet penetration and human development, with contemporary threshold evidence. The policy implications are articulated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390940
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A development consensus reconciling the Beijing Model and Washington Consensus : views and agenda
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409248
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On foreign aid distortions to governance
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could seriously affect debates in academic and policy making circles. Using the theoretical underpinnings of the celebrated Eubank (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409797
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The white man's burden : on the effect of African resistance to European domination
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A.; Cinyabuguma, … - 2016
Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496363
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Is the threat of foreign aid withdrawal an effective deterrent to political oppression? : evidence from 53 African countries
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on political rights, aid volatilities and the post-Berlin Wall period. The findings show that while foreign aid does not have a significant effect on political rights, foreign aid volatilities do mitigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496393
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Conditional determinants of mobile phones penetration and mobile banking in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
, business/bank, market-related, knowledge economy, external flows and human development. The empirical evidence is based on … development, especially in the contemporary specifications. Fourth, mobile banking is positively linked with: (i) trade in …) internet penetration and human development, with contemporary threshold evidence. The policy implications are articulated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407897
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Forschungsintensive Industrie gut aufgestellt
Belitz, Heike; Clemens, Marius; Gornig, Martin; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 17, pp. 3-4
Jahrelang wurde die starke industrielle Ausrichtung der deutschen Wirtschaft moniert. Deutschland sei zu stark exportorientiert, zu anfällig für Krisen, Nachfrage- und Wechselkursschwankungen, so die Kritik. Ein oberflächlicher Blick auf die Daten der jüngsten Wirtschaftskrise scheint die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003891
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Wertschöpfung und Produktivität wieder stark gestiegen
Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 17, pp. 5-10
Kein anderes großes Industrieland ist so stark auf die Produktion von forschungsintensiven Gütern ausgerichtet wie Deutschland. In der Wirtschaftskrise 2009 war aber gerade die forschungsintensive Industrie mit ihrer Exportorientierung einer Feuerprobe ausgesetzt. Der Einbruch der Umsätze hat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003898