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This study examines the effect of political implications of women on industrialisation in Africa. The results after … controlling for cross-sectional dependency show that women political implication Granger causes industrialisation in Africa …. Besides, the Fixed effect Driscoll/Kraay standard error estimator reveal that women political empowerment negatively affect …
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Do women really improve conditions for gender equality after becoming heads of states? This study investigates if … having a woman at the helm of country's decision making processes leads to better indicators on women conditions. Using time …
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This study examines the effect of women's socioeconomic empowerment on environmental sustainability in Africa over the … 1996-2019 period. Results of the system Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) estimator reveal that women's socioeconomic … empowerment is environment enhancing. Moreover, the findings reveal that the environmental impact of women's socioeconomic …
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This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic participation in sub-Saharan African nations. Three female economic participation indicators are used, namely female labor force participation, female unemployment and female employment...
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In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women …, health, education, economic prosperity and digitalisation. Our findings show that: (i) Botswana performs best while women in …
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Given that challenges facing sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries on the issue of socioeconomic development have been identified as critical to strengthening the inherent link between governance and socioeconomic conditions, this study examines the interconnections between governance and SSA...
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quantiles. The results of the study recommend African policymakers to prioritise the inclusion of women in the political agenda …
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The study has contributed to the extant literature on the relevance of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) by assessing how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female labour force participation. The focus is on 47 African...
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This study investigates how ICT affects gender economic inclusion via gender parity education channels. We examine the issue using data from 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004-2018 divided into: (i) 42 countries for the period 2004-2014; and (ii) 49 countries for the period...
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This study explores whether female economic inclusion enhances tax performance in a sample of 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2018. The study's empirical evidence is based on the generalized method of moments in order to account for endogeneity concerns. Three tax performance...
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