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This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic … participation, female unemployment and female employment rates. The engaged ICT variables are: fixed broadband subscriptions, mobile …
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This study examines linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) dynamics, inequality and poverty in … promote gender inclusive education in 57 developing countries for the period 2012-2016. Poverty is measured with the poverty … personal computers to increase inclusive education, the Gini coefficient, Palma ratio and poverty headcount (% of the …
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of failure consistently impacts entrepreneurship intent regardless of gender. A key policy implication of this research …
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agricultural land and nutritional outcomes by examining gender differences. Results suggest significant effects of access to …, gender differences are reported. Access to agricultural land appears to be a significant determinant of improved children …
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This study investigates how ameliorating gender inclusion affects sustainable development in Africa over the period … 2000-2019 in 42 African countries. It argues that enhancing gender inclusion in all sectors of society promotes and sets a … better pace for the attainment of sustainable development in Africa. The gender inclusion variable used is the females …
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This study investigates how ICT affects gender economic inclusion via gender parity education channels. We examine the … the first sample, an extended analysis is used to establish thresholds of ICT penetration that nullify the established net … negative effects. We found that in order to enhance female labor force participation, the following ICT thresholds are …
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The study investigates the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of …, financial access is measured with deposit and credit channels while ICT is proxied by mobile phone penetration, internet … empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Policy thresholds are established at which, ICT modulates …
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The study assesses how ICT modulates the effect of inequality on female economic participation in a panel of 42 …, the Atkinson index and the Palma ratio. The adopted ICT indicators are mobile phone penetration, internet penetration and … fixed broadband subscriptions. Three gender economic inclusion indicators are also used for the analysis, namely: female …
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represent the most relevant ICT moderator of gender economic inclusion for an effect on CO2 emissions; (ii) negative net effects … between information technology, gender economic inclusion and environmental sustainability. …Purpose - This study examines the relevance of information and communication technologies in the effect of gender …
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