PUBLICATIONS
The AGDI has published substantially in fulfillment of its mission statement of contributing to knowledge towards African development:
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Publication List
2015 |
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1. | Asongu, Jacinta Nwachukwu Simplice C A A Good Turn Deserves Another: Political Stability, Corruption and Corruption-Control 2015. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Fragility; Corruption; Conflicts; Africa @workingpaper{Asongu2015bu, title = {A Good Turn Deserves Another: Political Stability, Corruption and Corruption-Control}, author = {Jacinta Nwachukwu C Simplice A. Asongu}, editor = {African 2015 Governance and Development Institute WP/15/039}, url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/A-Good-Turn-Deserves-Another.Political-stability-and-corruption.pdf}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-09-01}, abstract = {We build on existing literature and contemporary challenges to African development to assess the role of political stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate that on the one hand, an atmosphere of political instability should increase the confidence of impunity owing to less corruption-control. On the other hand, in the absence such impunity from corruption, political instability further fuels corruption. Our findings validate both hypotheses. Hence, contrary to a stream of the literature, we establish causal evidence of a positive (negative) nexus between political stability/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Methods of Moments. The findings are robust to contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions. The political stability estimates are consistently significant with decreasing (increasing) magnitudes throughout the conditional distributions of corruption (corruption-control). In other words, the positive responsiveness of corruption-control to political stability is an increasing function of corruption-control while the negative responsiveness of corruption to political stability is a decreasing function of corruption. Simply put: a good turn deserves another.}, keywords = {Fragility; Corruption; Conflicts; Africa}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {workingpaper} } We build on existing literature and contemporary challenges to African development to assess the role of political stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate that on the one hand, an atmosphere of political instability should increase the confidence of impunity owing to less corruption-control. On the other hand, in the absence such impunity from corruption, political instability further fuels corruption. Our findings validate both hypotheses. Hence, contrary to a stream of the literature, we establish causal evidence of a positive (negative) nexus between political stability/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Methods of Moments. The findings are robust to contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions. The political stability estimates are consistently significant with decreasing (increasing) magnitudes throughout the conditional distributions of corruption (corruption-control). In other words, the positive responsiveness of corruption-control to political stability is an increasing function of corruption-control while the negative responsiveness of corruption to political stability is a decreasing function of corruption. Simply put: a good turn deserves another. |
2. | Asongu, Simplice A Economics Bulletin, 35 (4), pp. 2037-2048, 2015. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Fragility; Corruption; Conflicts; Africa @article{Asongu_631, author = {Simplice A Asongu}, url = {http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2015/Volume35/EB-15-V35-I4-P208.pdf}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-08-05}, journal = {Economics Bulletin}, volume = {35}, number = {4}, pages = {2037-2048}, abstract = {We build on existing literature and contemporary challenges to African development to assess the role of political stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate that on the one hand, an atmosphere of political instability should increase the confidence of impunity owing to less corruption-control. On the other hand, in the absence such impunity from corruption, political instability further fuels corruption. Our findings validate both hypotheses. Hence, contrary to a stream of the literature, we establish causal evidence of a positive (negative) nexus between political stability/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. The findings are robust to contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions. The political stability estimates are consistently significant with decreasing (increasing) magnitudes throughout the conditional distributions of corruption (corruption-control). In other words, the positive responsiveness of corruption-control to political stability is an increasing function of corruption-control while the negative responsiveness of corruption to political stability is a decreasing function ofcorruption. Simply put: a good turn deserves another.}, keywords = {Fragility; Corruption; Conflicts; Africa}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } We build on existing literature and contemporary challenges to African development to assess the role of political stability in fighting corruption and boosting corruption-control in 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010. We postulate that on the one hand, an atmosphere of political instability should increase the confidence of impunity owing to less corruption-control. On the other hand, in the absence such impunity from corruption, political instability further fuels corruption. Our findings validate both hypotheses. Hence, contrary to a stream of the literature, we establish causal evidence of a positive (negative) nexus between political stability/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. The findings are robust to contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions. The political stability estimates are consistently significant with decreasing (increasing) magnitudes throughout the conditional distributions of corruption (corruption-control). In other words, the positive responsiveness of corruption-control to political stability is an increasing function of corruption-control while the negative responsiveness of corruption to political stability is a decreasing function ofcorruption. Simply put: a good turn deserves another. |
2014 |
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3. | Asongu, Simplice A On the Effect of State fragility on Corruption 2014. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Fragility; Corruption; Conflicts; Africa @workingpaper{Asongu2014bt, title = {On the Effect of State fragility on Corruption}, author = {Simplice A Asongu}, editor = {African 2014 Governance and Development Institute WP/14/040}, url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/On-the-effect-of-state-fragility-on-corruption.pdf}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-05-01}, abstract = {The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data (1996-2010) from 53 African countries, we provide evidence of a positive (negative) nexus between political stability/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more expositional than factual and should be treated with caution.}, keywords = {Fragility; Corruption; Conflicts; Africa}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {workingpaper} } The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data (1996-2010) from 53 African countries, we provide evidence of a positive (negative) nexus between political stability/no violence and corruption-control (corruption). As a policy implication, the finding of the underlying paper maybe more expositional than factual and should be treated with caution. |