income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration in 52 African countries. Design/methodology/approach – Robust … mobile penetration is pro-poor, as it has a positive income equality effect. Social implications – ‘Mobile phone …’-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value – It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic …

manner: on the one hand, assess the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and; on the other hand, the … instrumentality of good governance in this nexus. Main findings suggest an equalizing income-redistributive effect, with a higher … higher income-equalizing effect of mobile phone penetration. The empirical evidence which deviates from mainstream country …

In the first empirical study on how financial reforms have been instrumental in mitigating inequality through financial …: (1) while formal financial development decreases inequality, financial sector formalization increases it; (2) whereas … semi-formal financial development increases inequality, the effect of financial semi-formalization is unclear; (3) both …

This paper examines how domestic, foreign, private and public investments affect income-inequality through financial … the poor as they diminish estimated household income-inequality. Financial size does not have a significant income … in the literature provide new insights into the finance-inequality nexus. Policy implications are discussed. …

poverty should take account of the disequalizing income-effect of foreign investment in undeveloped countries. …Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … development dynamics of depth, efficiency, activity and size have an equalizing effect on income distribution through private …

which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that … financial liberalization (KAOPEN) has a positive income-redistribution impact while the de facto measure (FDI) does not; (2 …

other financial sectors has a disequalizing income effect. (2) Growth of informal and semi-formal financial sectors at the … expense of the formal financial sector has an income equalizing effect. (3) The positive income redistributive effect of semi …

the incidence of piracy on inequality in Africa: a continent with stubbornly high poverty and inequality rates. …Purpose – Poverty and inequality undoubtedly remain substantial challenges to economic and human developments amid … piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are …

inequality in OECD nations. We assess the effects of four debt dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Instrumental …

Is China-Africa economic relation instrumental for capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ? Does it matter in the … as capital flight and; (b) The capital flight contributes to improving the level of poverty in Africa. Overall, we can … capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ. The construction of a theoretical framework highlighting stylized fact and the …