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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 Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409248
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On the effect of state fragility on corruption
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to … (1996-2010) from 53 African countries, we provide evidence of a positive (negative) nexus between political stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409094
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Rational asymmetric development, Piketty and the spirit of poverty in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
The study extends the implications of Piketty's celebrated literature from developed countries to the nexus between developed nations and African countries by building on responses from Rogoff (2014) & Stiglitz (2014), post Washington Consensus paradigms and underpinnings from Solow-Swan &...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408865
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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short … post-2015 development challenges and provide foreign aid policy instruments with which discussed objectives can be achieved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409158
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Trade, aid and terror
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015
This study assesses the role of foreign aid in reducing the hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on trade using … GMM estimations with forward orthogonal deviations. Bilateral, multilateral and total aid dynamics are employed whereas …. First, while bilateral aid has no significant effect on trade, multilateral and total aids have positive impacts. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408402
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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : Kuznets, Piketty and the great policy reversal
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short … post-2015 development challenges and provide foreign aid policy instruments with which discussed objectives can be achieved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408850
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The Effects of Remittances on Output per Worker in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Production Function Approach
Ssozi, John; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if complemented with education. The indirect effects vary with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390880
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The effects of remittances on output per worker in Sub-Saharan Africa : a production function approach
Ssozi, John; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if complemented with education. The indirect effects vary with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409201
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Fighting African Capital Flight: Empirics on Benchmarking Policy Harmonization
Asongu, Simplice A. - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 11 (2014) 1, pp. 93-122
With earthshaking and heartbreaking trends in African capital flight provided by a new database, this paper complements existing literature by answering some key policy questions on the feasibility of and timeframe for policy harmonization in the battle against the economic scourge. The goal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245953
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Fighting African capital flight: timelines for the adoption of common policies
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
, political stability and religious domination. Based on the findings, a genuine standard-setting timeframe is in the horizon of 6 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390826