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Foreign aid volatility and lifelong learning: demand-side empirics to a textual literature
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
learning in Africa. Practical implications- As a policy implication, when faced with aid uncertainty, the demand for education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408497
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Foreign aid, education and lifelong learning in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2015
This study investigates the effect of foreign aid on education and lifelong learning in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. Three main issues are assessed, notably: (i) the effect of aid on education; (ii) the incremental impact of aid on education and (iii) the effect of aid on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410635
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Foreign Aid, Education and Lifelong Learning in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
This study investigates the effect of foreign aid on education and lifelong learning in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. Three main issues are assessed, notably: (i) the effect of aid on education; (ii) the incremental impact of aid on education and (iii) the effect of aid on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903746
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Foreign aid volatility and lifelong learning
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
aid volatility does not adversely affect the demand-side choices of lifelong learning in Africa. As a policy implication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128415
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Africa
Cerami, Alfio - 2018
This chapter addresses the issue of social protection and welfare in Africa. Africa is a highly diversified continent … characterized by different socio-economic performances. It comprises the more developed countries of North Africa, as well as the … less developed sub-region of Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the existence of several problems and challenges, this part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109899
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US-China Aid Competition in Africa for Political Allegiance
Xu, Xing; Wang, Sujuan - 2022
financial aid to Africa. Using 54 African countries who have received financial aid from China and the US from 2000 to 2013, we … from both countries simultaneously affects Africa's political allegiance. This research finds that more financial aid from … either China or the US has a causal effect on Africa's higher voting consistency with its donor in the UN General Assembly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084335
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On the dynamic effects of foreign aid on corruption
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional proximity, openness to sea, natural resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408498
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Foreign aid and governance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2014
influence the election and replacement of political leaders in Africa may have insignificant results. It is time to solve the … paper extends the debate on foreign aid and institutions in Africa in the light a plethora of recent studies in the aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409152
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Foreign aid, investment and fiscal policy behavior : theory and empirical evidence
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jellal, Mohammed - 2014
The paper provides theoretical and empirical justifications for the instrumentality of foreign aid in stimulating private investment and fixed capital formation through fiscal policy mechanisms. We propose an endogenous growth theory based on an extension of Barro (1990) by postulating that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409169
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A brief clarification to the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The study clarifies the questionable economics of foreign aid for inclusive human development. It investigates the effect of a plethora of foreign aid dynamics on the inequality adjusted human development index. Contemporary and non-contemporary OLS, Fixed-effects and a system GMM technique with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409176