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The Employment Effects of Mobile Internet in Developing Countries
Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the employment effects of 3G mobile internet expansion in developing countries. We find that 3G significantly increases the labor force participation rate of women and the employment rates of both men and women. Our results suggest that 3G affects the type of jobs and there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477233
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ICT Use in the Developing World : An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration
Chinn, Menzie D. - 2006
Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries and across developing countries. To identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466283
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Welfare-Consistent Global Poverty Measures
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is … making more progress against poverty than the developed world …The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453972
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Mobile Money, Interoperability, and Financial Inclusion
Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad; Limodio, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper investigates the tradeoff between competition and financial inclusion resulting from the vertical integration between mobile network and money operators. Joining newly assembled data on mobile money fees through the WayBack machine, with sources on network coverage and financials, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372453
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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence using Nutrition Data for Africa
Brown, Caitlin S. - 2017
assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453666
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Scaling the Digital Divide : Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement
Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2010
Does differential access to computer technology at home compound the educational disparities between rich and poor? Would a program of government provision of computers to early secondary school students reduce these disparities? We use administrative data on North Carolina public school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462577
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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522996
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Globalization and Poverty
Harrison, Ann - 2006
This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466318
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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467709
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Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance
Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Karlan, Dean; Udry, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
anti-poverty programs. Our approach uses traditional survey-based measures of consumption and wealth to train machine … learning algorithms that recognize patterns of poverty in non-traditional data; the trained algorithms are then used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599360