We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in … at HDI thresholds of 0.725, 0.727 and 0.778 and; (ii) inequality in UMIC and LA with HDI thresholds of respectively 0 …

This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … are established. (i) Income inequality unconditionally reduces poverty and the severity of poverty though the significance … significantly moderate the positive incidence of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in some quantiles. (iii …

financial crimes in Africa and their impact on economic growth. We adopted the PRISMA protocol to identify 128 papers from the … Western Africa, Southern Africa and Eastern Africa. Socio-political marginalization, poverty and unemployment, weak … of the studies indicates that financial crimes have significant negative impacts on the economic growth of the African …

This study assesses the incidence of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty levels in 50 African countries by employing the … PovcalNet computational tool for poverty monitoring. The empirical evidence is based on: (i) Pre Covid-19 macroeconomic … projections of October 2019 and revised macroeconomic projections of April 2020 and (ii) three poverty thresholds, notably, US$1 …

growth resurgence. This chapter explores the role of transfer mispricing in SSA's extreme poverty tragedy. The analytical … high levels of exclusive growth and extreme poverty; (iv) the practice of transfer mispricing by multinationals operating …A recent publication by the World Bank on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has established that extreme poverty has …

(TP), next we present the nexus between TP and poverty and finally we advance arguments for CSR in transfer mispricing …. While acknowledging that TP is a legal accounting practice, we argue that in view of its poverty and underdevelopment …

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

substitute for financial inclusion in energy poverty reduction in Ghana. Pooled data and two stage least squares techniques are … inclusion in energy poverty mitigation) is based on two main criteria: (i) a positive interactive effect relative to the …

The study assesses how financial institution dynamics have affected poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 sub … institutions dynamics affect poverty and the severity of poverty throughout the conditional distribution of poverty and severity of … poverty. The findings show various tendencies, inter alia: (i) financial institutions depth (efficiency) consistently …

An April 2015 World Bank report on attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target has … revealed that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …), in spite of the sub-region enjoying more than two decades of growth resurgence. This study builds on a critique of …