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The role of mobile money innovations in the effect of inequality on poverty and severity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara - 2023
This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1980 to 2019. Mobile money innovations are understood … Gini index. Poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio while the severity of poverty is generated as the squared of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335582
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Understanding sub-Saharan Africa's extreme poverty tragedy
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara - 2018
Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822290
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Enhancing ICT for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongua, Simplice A.; Le Roux, Sara - 2016
This study assesses if increasing information and communication technology (ICT) enhances inclusive human development in a sample of 49 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence present in this study, is based on instrumental variable Tobit regressions, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523139
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The role of mobile money innovations in transforming unemployed women to self-employed women in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara - 2023
The study examines how mobile money innovations transform unemployed women to self-employed women. The empirical evidence is based on interactive quantile regressions focusing on data in 44 countries from sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004 to 2018. The hypothesis that mobile money...
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