Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … poverty should take account of the disequalizing income-effect of foreign investment in undeveloped countries. …

This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household income inequality whereas financial development is proxied with financial depth … (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), mobilizing domestic resources for investment purposes may have greater …

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

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …-examine their results with a non-monetary and multidimensional poverty indicator first published in 2010. Our findings confirm the … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …

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

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 critic of Piketty …

paradigms and underpinnings from Solow-Swan & Boyce-Fofack-Ndikumana. The central argument presented is that the inequality … problem is at the heart of rational asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality … increases when the return of capital is higher than the growth rate, because the poor cannot catch-up with the rich. We argue …

This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle … class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 …

-specific and microeconomic survey-based approaches is on 52 African countries. 'Mobile phone'-oriented poverty reduction channels …

'-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value - It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic … survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the ‘mobile phone’-inequality …