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Sino-African relations: a review and reconciliation of dominant schools of thought

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

We review about 100 papers on Sino-African relations published during the past 5 years for the most part, in order to put some structure on the existing strands. The literature is classified into dominant schools of thought, namely the: neocolonial or pessimistic; balance-development or...

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China's Strategies in Economic Diplomacy: A Survey of Updated Lessons for Africa, the West and China

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Aminkeng, … - 2014

The Washington consensus, the hitherto dominant scheme is being encroached by the Beijing model. Many African nations are increasingly embracing this Beijing approach because the dominant Western model has failed to deliver on a number of fronts. This is increasingly evident because China's...

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Sino-African relations: some solutions and strategies to the policy syndromes

Asongu, Simplice A.; Ssozi, John - 2015

We survey about 110 recently published studies on Sino-African relations; put some structure on the documented issues before suggesting some solutions and strategies to the identified policy syndromes. The documented issues classified into eight main strands include, China: targeting nations...

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Sino-African relations : some solutions and strategies to the policy syndromes

Asongu, Simplice A.; Ssozi, John - 2015

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Sino-African relations : a review and reconciliation of dominant schools of thought

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409122

China's strategies in economic diplomacy : a survey of updated lessons for Africa, the West and China

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Aminkeng, … - 2014

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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … why the Acemoglu & Johnson (2005) justification provided for the measurement of property rights institutions (PRI) is …

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Institutions and Poverty: A Critical Comment Based on Evolving Currents and Debates

Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2014

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty … eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in …

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An Empirical Note on Tribalism and Government Effectiveness

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

This study assesses the relationship between tribalism (the tribalism index) and government effectiveness (per the World Bank) in 65 countries using cross-sectional data averages from 2000-2010. This study finds that countries with high-tribal populations generally enjoy bad governance in terms...

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Women in Power and Power of Women: the Liberian Experience

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015

Do women really improve conditions for gender equality after becoming heads of states? This study investigates if having a woman at the helm of country's decision making processes leads to better indicators on women conditions. Using time series observations for the period 2000-2011, we test the...

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