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Bundling Governance: Finance versus Institutions in Private Investment Promotion

Asongu, Simplice; Batuo, Enowbi; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2015

Purpose – The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by Acemoglu and Johnson (2005), Ali (2013) and Asongu (2014). We assess the effects of various components of governance on private investment, notably: political, economic and...

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Inequality, Finance and Pro-Poor Investment in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2015

This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …

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The Comparative African Regional Economics of Globalization in Financial Allocation Efficiency

Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2015

four economic and monetary regions in Africa for the period 1980 to 2008. Banking system and financial system efficiencies …

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Information Sharing and Financial Sector Development in Africa

Tchamyou, Vanessa; Asongu, Simplice - 2016

This study investigates the effect information sharing has on financial sector development in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. Information sharing is measured with private credit bureaus and public credit registries. Hitherto unexplored dimensions of financial sector development...

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Diaspora Remittance Inflow, Financial Development and the Industrialisation of Africa

Efobi, Uchenna; Asongu, Simplice; Okafor, Chinelo; … - 2016

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive...

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Is information diffusion a threat to market power for financial access? Insights from the African banking industry

Asongu, Simplice; Batuo, Enowbi; Nwachukwu, Jacinta; … - 2016

This study assesses how information diffusion dampens the adverse effect of market power on the price and quantity of loans provided by a panel of 162 banks from 39 African countries for the period 2001-2011. The empirical evidence is based on three endogenity-robust estimation techniques,...

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Remittances, finance and industrialisation in Africa

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; Okafor, … - 2019

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation us ing a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive...

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The comparative African economics of governance in fighting terrorism

Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa; Asongu, Ndemaze; … - 2018

This study assesses the comparative economics of governance in fighting terrorism in 53 African countries for period 1996-2012. Four terrorism variables are used, namely: domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism dynamics. Nine bundled and unbundled governance variables are employed,...

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The role of ICT in modulating the effect of education and lifelong learning on income inequality and economic growth in Africa

Tchamyou, Vanessa; Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019

This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality and economic growth. It focuses on a sample of 48 African countries from 2004 to 2014. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments (GMM). The following...

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Gender inclusion and sustainable development in Africa

Tchamyou, Vanessa; Edoh, Ofeh M. - 2022

This study investigates how ameliorating gender inclusion affects sustainable development in Africa over the period … better pace for the attainment of sustainable development in Africa. The gender inclusion variable used is the females … in Africa and subsequently, adequate measures should be taken into consideration to boost gender inclusion such as …

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