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Governance and social media in African countries: An empirical investigation
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
This study assesses linkages between social media and governance dynamics in 49 African countries for the year 2012 …. The empirical evidence is based on ordinary least squares and quantile regressions. Ten bundled and unbundled governance … dynamics are used, notably: (i) polit ical governance (entailing "voice & accountability" and political stability/no violence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112169
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Financial access, governance and insurance sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
Purpose - This study investigates the role of financial access in moderating the effect of governance on insurance … insurance indicators are used, notably: life insurance and non-life insurance. Six governance measurements are also used, namely …-life insurance via governance mechanisms of political stability, "voice & accountability", government effectiveness, regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112212
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Finance, governance and inclusive education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020
This research assesses the importance of credit access in modulating governance for gender inclusive education in 42 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389184
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Finance, governance and inclusive education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020
This research assesses the importance of credit access in modulating governance for gender inclusive education in 42 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228873
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Financial access, governance and insurance sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
Purpose - This study investigates the role of financial access in moderating the effect of governance on insurance … insurance indicators are used, notably: life insurance and non-life insurance. Six governance measurements are also used, namely …-life insurance via governance mechanisms of political stability, "voice & accountability", government effectiveness, regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052983
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Income levels, governance and inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
This study examines how income-driven governance affects inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa with data …. Nine bundled and unbundled concepts of governance are used: political (voice & accountability and political stability …) governances. The main finding is that "middle income"-driven governance has a higher effect on inclusive human development than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025637
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Governance and social media in African countries : an empirical investigation
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
This study assesses linkages between social media and governance dynamics in 49 African countries for the year 2012 …. The empirical evidence is based on ordinary least squares and quantile regressions. Ten bundled and unbundled governance … dynamics are used, notably: (i) polit ical governance (entailing "voice & accountability" and political stability/no violence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998245
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Financial systems and economic growth: Empirical evidence from Australia
Nyasha, Sheilla; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Contemporary Economics 10 (2016) 2, pp. 163-174
This paper examines the dynamic impact of both bank- and market-based financial development on economic growth in Australia during the period from 1980 to 2012. The study uses the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to examine this linkage. Unlike certain previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659883
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Financial development and investment dynamics in Mauritius: A trivariate Granger-causality analysis
Muyambiri, Brian; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 68 (2018) 2/3, pp. 62-73
This paper examines the causal relationship between both bank-based and market-based financial development and investment in Mauritius for the period from 1976 to 2014. The study assumes that investment and financial development have an accelerator-enhancing relationship. To accommodate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994289
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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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112140