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Drivers and persistence of death in conflicts : global evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2020
We investigate persistence and determinants of deaths from conflicts in a sample of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. First, the findings are contingent on income levels, religiousdomination, landlockedness, regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271446
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Tourism and insecurity in the world
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
The study assesses the role of forces of law and order in modulating the insecurity-tourism nexus in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. Policy syndromes or insecurity dynamics include: violent crime, access to weapons, political instability and perception of criminality while the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112195
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Homicide and social media: Global empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
This study investigates the relationship between social media and homicide in a cross section of 148 countries for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit and Quantile regressions. The findings from Ordinary Least Squares and Tobit regressions show a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112217
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Political instability and political terror: Global evidence on persistence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2020
We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389171
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Political instability and political terror : global evidence on persistence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2020
We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181789
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Tourism and insecurity in the world
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
The study assesses the role of forces of law and order in modulating the insecurity-tourism nexus in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. Policy syndromes or insecurity dynamics include: violent crime, access to weapons, political instability and perception of criminality while the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010172
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Homicide and social media : global empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
This study investigates the relationship between social media and homicide in a cross section of 148 countries for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit and Quantile regressions. The findings from Ordinary Least Squares and Tobit regressions show a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058452
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Tourism and Insecurity in the World
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
The study assesses the role of forces of law and order in modulating the insecurity-tourism nexus in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. Policy syndromes or insecurity dynamics include: violent crime, access to weapons, political instability and perception of criminality while the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869461
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Corporate social responsibility and the role of rural women in sustainable agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from the Niger Delta in Nigeria
Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.; Asongu, Simplice - 2019
companies' (MOCs') CSR on rural women access to modern agricultural inputs in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. A total of 700 rural … limit poverty reduction efforts in Nigeria. The results also showed that women depended on CSR of MOCs for policy dialogue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112155
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Young rural women participation in the e-wallet programme and usage intensity of modern agricultural inputs in Nigeria
Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2018
subsequent impact on usage intensity of modern agricultural inputs in Nigeria. Six hundred YRW were sampled across six … geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Using double- hurdle, results show that YRW rarely participate in the e-wallet programme due to the … poverty. This implies that Nigeria's agricultural transformation agenda would only succeed if the FGN is able to draw on all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112158