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This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … interact with primary school education to decrease income inequality. Second, all ICT indicators interact with secondary school … education and lifelong learning to have a positive effect on economic growth. Fourth, ICT indicators do not significantly …
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This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …
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This study examines linkages between inequality, information and communication technology (ICT) and inclusive education … in order to establish inequality thresholds that should not be exceeded in order for ICT to promote inclusive education ….400 and 0.625 are income inequality thresholds that should not be exceeded in order for internet penetration to positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112203
The study examines the effectiveness of financial development, financial access, and ICT diffusion in reducing the …, ICT usage, and ICT access, ICT skills is remarkable in reducing both the severity and intensity of poverty. The results … further unveil that, though ICT skills reduce the intensity and severity of poverty in SSA, the effect is more pronounced in …
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A previous analysis of the impact of formal institutions on the knowledge economy of 22 Middle-Eastern and Sub …, determinants of the knowledge economy. To extend that study, this paper claims that globalization induces peace and stability …, which affects governance and through governance the knowledge economy. The claim addresses one weakness of previous research …
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academic circles. Against the background of growing political instability in Africa and the central role of the knowledge …/methodology/approach - We define lifelong learning as the combined knowledge acquired during primary, secondary and tertiary education … policy implications are discussed, inter alia: how the drive towards increasing the knowledge economy through lifelong …
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The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the …
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, lifelong learning defined as knowledge acquired during primary, secondary and tertiary education negatively affects corruption … corruption. Second, the drive towards a knowledge economy by means of lifelong learning has 'corruption mitigating' benefits. …
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The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We systematically review about 180 recently published papers to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112170
The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We survey about 180 recently published papers to provide recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784867