This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1980 to 2019. Mobile money innovations are understood … Gini index. Poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio while the severity of poverty is generated as the squared of …

This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty, contingent on the macroeconomic environment within the remit … of inflation in Africa. The Afrobarometer survey is used. Our data cover 38 countries consisting of three rounds of … regression. The results reveal that while poverty has a positive effect on the spread of bribery, inflation can mitigate the …

in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). More specifically, we investigate the complementary role of knowledge diffusion in the …

A recent World Bank report reveals that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of … sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as more than 45% of countries in the sub-region are off-track from achieving the Millennium … Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target. This paper investigates the effects of mobile phone technology, knowledge creation …

in a sample of 49 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence present in this study …