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The role of governance and infrastructure in moderating the effect of resource rents on economic growth
Asongu, Simplice; Diop, Samba; Emeka, Ekene; Ogbonna, … - 2024
This study investigates how governance and infrastructure moderate the effect of natural resource rents on economic … governance threshold of -1.210 and an infrastructure threshold of 2.583, indicating that countries with governance and … infrastructure levels higher than these values tend to benefit much more from the wealth of natural resources. With high levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057615
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Towards inclusive green growth in Africa : critical energy efficiency synergies and governance thresholds
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel; Ojong, Nathanael - 2022
green growth (IGG) in Africa. Our contribution is novel from both the conceptual and empirical perspectives. With regard to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262630
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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015
We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390407
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Why Ethnic Fractionalization? Polarization, Ethnic Conflict and Growth
García Montalvo, José; Reynal-Querol, Marta - 2003
This paper is an attempt to clarify the relationship between ethnic fractionalization, polarization and conflict. In recent years many authors have argued that ethnic fractionalization has a negative effect on growth because it increases the likelihood of conflicts. For this reason many growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014086798
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Designing a New Development Finance Institution for Infrastructure
Natarajan, Gulzar - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844324
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Institutional architecture for financing Pan-Asian infrastructure connectivity
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2017
trade-driven growth through increased intraregional infrastructure connectivity and regional economic integration. In 1992 … proposed. This initiative plans to create an economic zone covering Asia, Europe and Africa. To successfully promote and … connectivity as well as infrastructure financing needs in Asia. It also examines the nature and characteristics of existing and new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638303
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Institutional and Political Determinants of Private Participation in Infrastructure
Moszoro, Marian - 2014
, political, and governance variables to assess the determinants of private financing of infrastructure in emerging markets and … developing economies. Controlling for economic characteristics, we find that overall private participation of infrastructure … infrastructure. Our results do not vary when controlling for income inequality and across quartiles of experience, country wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454088
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Globalization and governance : a critical contribution to the empirics
Asongu, Simplice A.; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2016
This study assesses the effect of globalisation on governance in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Ten bundled and unbundled governance indicators and four globalisation variables are used. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496371
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New financial development indicators : with a critical contribution to inequality empirics
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409823
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Inequality, poverty and quality of institutions : which freedom channels of globalization matter for Africa?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure financial liberalization (KAOPEN) has a positive...
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