@workingpaper{Asongu_583,
author = {Jacinta Nwachukwu C Simplice A. Asongu},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/The-Mobile-Phone-in-the-Diffusion-of-Knowledge-for-Institutional-Quality-in-SSA.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-03-07},
abstract = {This study assesses the mobile phone in the diffusion of knowledge for better governance in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. For this purpose we employ Generalised Method of Moments with forward orthogonal deviations. The empirical evidence is based on three complementary knowledge diffusion variables (innovation, internet penetration and educational quality) and ten governance indicators that are bundled and unbundled. The following are the main findings. First, there is an unconditional positive effect of mobile phone penetration on good governance. Second, the net effects on political, economic and institutional governances that are associated with the interaction of the mobile phone with knowledge diffusion variables are positive for the most part. Third, countries with low levels of governance are catching-up their counterparts with higher levels of governance. The above findings are broadly consistent with theoretical underpinnings on the relevance of mobile phones in mitigating bad governance in Africa. The evidence of some insignificant net effects and decreasing marginal impacts may be an indication that the mobile phone could also be employed to decrease government quality. Overall, this study has established net positive effects for the most part. Five rationales could elicit the positive net effects on good governance from the interaction between mobile phones and knowledge diffusion, among
others, the knowledge variables enhance: reach, access, adoption, cost-effectiveness and interaction. In a nut shell, the positive net effects are apparent because the knowledge diffusion variables complement mobile phones in reducing information asymmetry and monopoly that create conducive conditions for bad governance. The contribution of the findings to existing theories and justifications of the underlying positive net effects are discussed.},
keywords = {Mobile phones; Governance; Africa},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}

@workingpaper{Asongu_584,
author = {Jacinta Nwachukwu C Simplice A. Asongu},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/Reconciliation-of-the-Washington-Consensus-with-the-Beijing-Model-in-Africa.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-03-07},
abstract = {In this study, we argue that an approach which will reconcile the two opposing camps in Sino-African relations and bring the most progress is a “middle passage” that greases contradictions and offers an accommodative, balanced and pragmatic vision on which Africans can unite. We present a case under which countries can substantially enhance the prospect of development if an African consensus builds on a merger between the Western and Chinese models. We balance national interest with human rights, sovereign authority with individual rights and economic goals with political rights. The chapter presents arguments on the need for a development paradigm in Africa that reconciles the Washington Consensus with the Beijing Model. The analytical framework is organised in three main strands, notably: (i) historical perspectives and contemporary views; (ii) reconciliation of dominant schools of thought and paradigms surrounding Sino-African relations and (iii) practical and contemporary implications. Reconciled schools of thought are engaged in four main categories: optimists versus (vs.) pessimists; preferences in rights (human vs. national, idiosyncratic vs. sovereign and political vs. economic) and the Beijing model vs. the Washington Consensus.},
keywords = {Economic relations; China; Africa},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}

@workingpaper{Asongu_585,
author = {Jacinta Nwachukwu C Simplice A. Asongu},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/Mobile-phones-in-the-diffusion-of-knowledge-for-inclusive-development-in-SSA.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-03-06},
abstract = {The success of inclusive development strategies in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda depends substantially on the adoption of common inclusive development policies among nations. Building on the relevance of a knowledge economy in the post-2015 development agenda, this study models the feasibility of common policies for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). More specifically, we investigate the complementary role of knowledge diffusion in the inclusive benefits of mobile phone penetration in SSA from 2000 to 2012 by employing the Generalised Method of Moments. Knowledge diffusion variables include educational quality, innovation and internet penetration. The main finding is that inclusive human development is persistently conditional on mobile phones in knowledge diffusion. Moreover, countries with low levels of inclusive human development are catching-up their counterparts with higher development. Policy implications are discussed with particular emphasis on how to leverage common knowledge economy initiatives for inclusive development.},
keywords = {Mobile phones; catch-up; inclusive human development; Africa},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}

@workingpaper{Kodila-Tedika2016c,
title = {Financial Development and Geographic Isolation: Global Evidence},
author = {Simplice Asongu & Matthias Cinyabuguma A Oasis Kodila-Tedika},
editor = {African 2016 Governance and Development Institute WP/16/014},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/Financial-Development-and-Geographic-Isolation.-Global-Evidence.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-03-01},
abstract = {Using cross-country differences in the degree of isolation before the advent of technologies in sea and air transportation, we assess the relationship between geographic isolation and financial development across the globe. We find that pre-historic geographical isolation has been beneficial to development because it has contributed to contemporary cross-country
differences in financial development. The relationship is robust to alternative samples, different estimation techniques, outliers and varying conditioning information sets.},
keywords = {Financial development; Isolation; Agglomeration; Globalization},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}

@workingpaper{Kodila-Tedika2016cb,
title = {The White Man’s Burden: On the Effect of African Resistance to European Domination},
author = {Simplice Asongu & Matthias Cinyabuguma A Oasis Kodila-Tedika},
editor = {African 2016 Governance and Development Institute WP/16/016},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/The-White-Man-Burden.-On-the-Effect-of-African-Resistance-to-European-Domination.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-03-01},
abstract = {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 causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling for the outliers.},
keywords = {Africa; Colonization; Slavery; Development},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}

@workingpaper{Kodila-Tedika2016b,
title = {Age of politicians and Regulatory Reform},
author = {Martin Mulunda Kabange Oasis Kodila-Tedika},
editor = {African 2016 Governance and Development Institute WP/16/003},
url = {http://afridev.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Age-of-politicians-and-Regulatory-Reform.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-02-17},
abstract = {This article discusses the relationship between the identity of the rulers of the executive and reform. Thus, we enrich the literature on the determinants of reform and the result of the executive. This is a new and very important literature, as these are the reforms that allow progress. We use a sample of 141 countries over the period 2003-2013 to investigate the link between the age of politicians and regulatory reforms. We created an ad hoc database for the age of politicians and for reform, we use micro-reform data. An econometric model is used to discover if the age of a political leader in office can be a driving force that is more or less likely to bring about regulatory reforms. Our results suggest that the age of politicians has a positive incidence on the reform that they bring about. The results are robust for the reform measures and techniques used. The results also indicate that older politicians implement more reforms than the young ones. More precisely, the paper found that older politicians who are in their sixties bring about the most regulatory reforms than politicians of any other age ranges.},
keywords = {Age of politicians, Reforms, Regulation},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}

@workingpaper{Kodila-Tedika2016e,
title = {Slave trade and Human Trafficking},
author = {Martin Mulunda Kabange Oasis Kodila-Tedika},
editor = {African 2016 Governance and Development Institute WP/16/002},
url = {http://afridev.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Slave-trade-and-Human-traficfficking-1.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-02-01},
abstract = {The literature has not sufficiently engaged in the emergence and expansion of the phenomenon of slave trade. This article estimates whether or not slave trade affects human trafficking using an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) with standard errors that are consistent with heteroscedasticity. The paper also checks for the robustness of the OLS model. The findings of the paper reveal that the effect of slave trade on human trafficking is positive and statistically significant.The more one is exposed to the phenomenon of slave trade, the more human trafficking is important. The paper also deduces that developed countries that experienced slave trade record low level of human trafficking nowadays, while developing countries continue to record high level of human trafficking. Additionally, institutions werefound to be statistically very significant, and essential to be politically and socioeconomically consolidated and promoted, mainly in developing countries in order to alleviate the level of human trafficking.},
keywords = {Human Trafficking, Slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}