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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 …

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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 …

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The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores

Meijers, Huub; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

This paper examines whether noncognitive skills - measured both by personality traits and economic preference parameters - influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea is that noncognitive skills might affect the effort people put into a test to obtain good results. We experimentally...

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The importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for measuring IQ

Borghans, Lex; Meijers, Huub; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This research provides an economic model of the way people behave during an IQ test. We distinguish a technology that describes how time investment improves performance from preferences that determine how much time people invest in each question. We disentangle these two elements empirically...

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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...

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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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