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This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household income inequality whereas financial development is proxied with financial depth …
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improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …
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The study assesses the role of financial development on income inequality in a panel of 48 African countries for the …, three indicators of inequality are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index and Palma ratio. The empirical … hypothesis: a humped shaped nexus between increasing GDP per capita and inequality. Policy implications are discussed. …
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This study assesses human development thresholds at which mobile banking mitigates poverty and inequality in 93 ….705 in inequality and poverty specifications, respectively. The relevance of the findings is discussed in light of the …" contribute to reducing inequality in countries at the bottom and top ends of the inequality distribution, while (ii) "mobiles …
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Poverty and inequality represent major policy syndromes that are relevant in the achievement of most United Nations … inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with data from 1980 to … 2019. The Gini index is used to measure income inequality. Poverty is measured in terms of the poverty headcount ratio …
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This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … are established. (i) Income inequality unconditionally reduces poverty and the severity of poverty though the significance … significantly moderate the positive incidence of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in some quantiles. (iii …
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improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440688
We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in … at HDI thresholds of 0.725, 0.727 and 0.778 and; (ii) inequality in UMIC and LA with HDI thresholds of respectively 0 …
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between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …) and negatively correlated with inequality in Latin American countries (LA). Second, growing use of mobile phones to send …/receive money is negatively associated with poverty in Asia and Pacific (AP) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Originality …
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mobile banking and inclusive development (quality of growth, inequality and poverty) among individuals in 93 developing … development, namely: quality of growth, inequality and poverty. As a main policy implication, encouraging mobile banking … applications would play a substantial role in responding to the challenges of immiserizing growth, inequality and poverty in …
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