Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,304
Cover Image
Unjust enrichment from official corruption in Africa : theory and model on how lenders have benefited
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s …, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542263
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Foreign aid fiscal policy : theory and evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Jellal, Mohammed - 2015
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/10011596867
Cover Image
An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2018
Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908690
Cover Image
Foreign Aid Instability and Bundled Governance Dynamics in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2016
-institutions' literature by examining how aid instabilities affect an aggregate index of governance dynamics in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997622
Cover Image
A single factor theory of Africa’s underdevelopment
Oseni, Ezekiel - In: International journal of business and economics … 7 (2018) 6, pp. 175-182
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012000534
Cover Image
Climatic fluctuations and the diffusion of agriculture
Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopulos, Stelios - 2013
This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society's history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009693400
Cover Image
Foreign aid fiscal policy : theory and evidence
Asongu, Simplice; Jellal, Mohammed - In: Comparative economic studies 58 (2016) 2, pp. 279-314
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665281
Cover Image
Informality and long-run growth
Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014
path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230511
Cover Image
The real exchange rate and economic growth : some observations on the possible channels
Rapetti, Martín - 2013
A recent body of empirical research has documented a strong association between the level and volatility of the RER and economic growth. This research has relied on a variety of econometric techniques applied to large cross-country data sets. Although the documented positive effects of both RER...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209280