severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators …, 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 …

The debate on the need for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to foster inclusive growth has intensified following the … integration and resource allocation, and (2) social equity policies on inclusive growth in SSA. Using data from the World Bank … moments estimators to show that: (1) though economic integration induces inclusive growth, the effect is higher in the …

The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …

able to achieve inclusive growth as dependency ratio, poverty and depletion of natural capital is very high. Also, health … incidence of poverty to the barest minimum to ensure that growth becomes inclusive. …This study analysed the issues involved in inclusive growth as well as the challenges faced by Nigeria. Issues like …

other financial sectors has a disequalizing income effect. (2) Growth of informal and semi-formal financial sectors at the …

pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed …

Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been …

swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …