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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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: women's labour force participation and women's unemployment. The chosen ICT indicators are mobile phone penetration … represent the most relevant ICT moderator of gender economic inclusion for an effect on CO2 emissions; (ii) negative net effects … are apparent for the most part with fixed broadband subscriptions (iii) both positive ICT thresholds (i.e., critical …
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Generally, the revolutionary idea behind using information and communication technology (ICT) has improved potential … productivity in many industries, particularly in Africa. ICT is an essential tool in the oil and gas industry and plays a … complementary role in technological dynamics and cross-sectoral productivity. For the educational sector, ICT facilitates research …
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This study examines how increasing ICT penetration in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) can contribute towards environmental …-four countries for the period 2000-2012. ICT is measured with internet penetration and mobile phone penetration while CO2 emissions … findings are established: First, from the non-interactive regressions, ICT (i.e. mobile phones and the internet) does not …
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study contributes to the existing empirical literature in several ways. It investigates whether education and information … and communication technology (ICT) matter to promote environmental sustainability in the Eastern and Southern Africa. The … causality approach. Our findings show the possibility of using education and clean technology investment in a complementary …
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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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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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This study assesses the role of ICT in complementing private credit bureaus (PCB) and public credit registries (PCR) in … marginal effects from interactions between ICT and PCR (PCB) are consistently positive (negative); (ii) net effects from … financial deposits. Overall, the complementarity between information offices and ICT in boosting financial access is still very …
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This study investigates loan price and quantity effects of information sharing offices with ICT, in a panel of 162 … Moments and Instrumental Quantile Regressions. Our findings broadly show that ICT with public credit registries decrease the … price of loans and increase the quantity of loans. While the net effects from the interaction of ICT with private credit …
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This study assesses if increasing information and communication technology (ICT) enhances inclusive human development … designed to boost ICT (mobile phone, internet, telephone) penetration will increase inclusive development in the post-2015 … sustainable development agenda. The degree of positive responsiveness of inclusive development to ICT varies across fundamental …
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