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The global economic crisis: Towards syndrome-free recovery for Africa
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi; Naudé, Wim - 2009
This paper outlines the impact of the global economic crisis on Africa. Recovery requires coordinated and consistent … result in (i) further boom-bust cycles and flaming the historically high volatility of African growth, including inflation …
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Foreign aid instability and bundled governance dynamics in Africa
Simplice, Asongu; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
-institutions’ literature by examining how aid instabilities affect an aggregate index of governance dynamics in Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596331
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The White Man’s Burden: On the Effect of African Resistance to European Domination
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice; Cinyabuguma, … - 2016
Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary issue addressed by this inquiry. We establish that African resistance has had adverse effects on post-colonial African development and discuss possible channels of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596352
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Is the Threat of Foreign Aid Withdrawal an Effective Deterrent to Political Oppression? Evidence from 53 African Countries
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on political rights, aid volatilities and the post-Berlin Wall period. The findings show that while foreign aid does not have a significant effect on political rights, foreign aid volatilities do mitigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596356
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Determinants of Mobile Phone Penetration: Panel Threshold Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
Despite the evolving literature on the development benefits of mobile phones, we still know very little about factors that influence their adoption. Using twenty five policy variables, we investigate determinants of mobile phone penetration in 49 Sub-Saharan African countries with data for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596382
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Does trade reduce poverty? A view from Africa
Le Goff, Maëlan; Singh, Raju Jan - In: Journal of African Trade 1 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14
Although trade liberalization is being actively promoted as a key component in development strategies, theoretically, the impact of trade openness on poverty reduction is ambiguous. On the one hand, a more liberalized trade regime is argued to change relative factor prices in favor of the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985835
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Foreign aid, instability and governance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2019
This study contributes to the attendant literature by bundling governance dynamics and focusing on foreign aid instability instead of foreign aid. We assess the role of foreign aid instabilit y on governance dynamics in fifty three African countries for the period 1996-2010. An autoregressive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112172
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A survey on the Washington Consensus and the Beijing Model: Reconciling development perspectives
Asongu, Simplice; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2019
Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal Institutional Pluralism (LIP) and New Structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112218
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The Cycle of Development in Africa: A Story about the Power of Economic Ideas
Paldam, Martin - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 147 (2011) 4, pp. 427-459
During the last 60 years development in Sub-Sahara Africa has had three main phases - P1, P2 and P3 - divided by kinks … considered. Some of these hypotheses have been proposed to explain the low growth of Africa, while most are meant to explain the … in the dominating development strategy. At the end of P1 the main policy-package in Africa became the one of African …
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956950