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Jacinta Chikaodi Nwachukwu

Professor of Enterprise and Finance

Economic growth and human welfare, Entrepreneurship, International Finance, Microfinance, Poverty reduction, Market and Banking Efficiency

I grew up in a village in Imo State, South Eastern in Nigeria where I helped farm our family land. Consequently, I have a keen insight into the culture and ways in which poor farmers, in particular females, conduct their affairs in my own and other African countries. My research interest is primarily in how financial sector reforms and access to financial services from conventional versus microfinance institutions can significantly contribute to the achievement of those Millennium Development Goals associated with poverty alleviation, access to education and health care services, as well as gender equality in Sub-Saharan Africa. To formulate sustainable policies for dealing with these development concerns, my research explores the determinants of default rates on loans as well as the mannemore...

MBA, Heriot-Watt University MSc, Lancaster University Doctorate, Lancaster University

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  1. Asongu, Simplice A. and Jacinta, Nwachukwu orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2987-9242 (2019) Mitigating externalities of terrorism on tourism: global evidence from police, security officers and armed service personnel. Current Issues in Tourism, 22 (20). pp. 2466-2471. ISSN 1368-3500
  2. Asongu, Simplice A, le Roux, Sara, Nwachukwu, Jacinta C orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2987-9242 and Pyke, Chris orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6576-2709 (2019) The Mobile Phone as an Argument for Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Information Technology and People, 32 (4). pp. 897-920. ISSN 0959-3845
  3. Asongu, Simplice A, Nwachukwu, Jacinta C orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2987-9242 and Pyke, Chris orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6576-2709 (2019) The Right to Life: Global Evidence on the Role of Security Officers and the Police in Modulating the Effect of Insecurity on Homicide. Social Indicators Research, 143 (2). pp. 727-740. ISSN 0303-8300
  4. Asongu, Simplice A, Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2987-9242 and Pyke, Chris orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6576-2709 (2019) The Comparative Economics of ICT, Environmental Degradation and Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Social Indicators Research, 143 (3). pp. 1271-1297. ISSN 0303-8300
  5. Asongu, Simplice A and Nwachukwu, Jacinta Chikaodi orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2987-9242 (2018) Recent finance advances in information technology for inclusive development: a systematic review. NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking, 19 (1-2). pp. 65-93. ISSN 1385-9587
  6. Asongu, Simplice A., Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2987-9242 and Biekpe, Nicholas (2018) Foreign Aid, Terrorism and Growth: Conditional Evidence from Quantile Regression. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 90 (3). pp. 457-486. ISSN 1370-4788
  7. Asongu, Simplice A. and Nwachukwu, Jacinta Chikaodi orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2987-9242 (2016) Conditional linkages between iron ore exports, foreign aid and terrorism. Mineral Economics, 29 (2-3). pp. 57-70.
  8. Asongu, Simplice A., Nwachukwu, Jacinta Chikaodi orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2987-9242 and Tchamyou, Vanessa S. (2016) Information asymmetry and financial development dynamics in Africa. Review of Development Finance, 6 (2). pp. 126-138. ISSN 1879-9337
  9. Asongu, Simplice, Nwachukwu, Jacinta Chikaodi orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2987-9242 and Tchamyou, Vanessa (2017) A LITERATURE SURVEY ON PROPOSED AFRICAN MONETARY UNIONS. Journal of Economic Surveys, 31 (3). pp. 878-902. ISSN 0950-0804
  10. Asongu, Simplice A. and Nwachukwu, Jacinta Chikaodi orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2987-9242 (2017) The Comparative Inclusive Human Development of Globalisation in Africa. Social Indicators Research, 134 (3). pp. 1027-1050. ISSN 0303-8300
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