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African Women Vulnerability index (AWVI) : focus on rural women

Tchamyou, Vanessa; Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2021

In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using the Round 7 Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and...

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African Women Vulnerability Index : focus on rural women

Tchamyou, Vanessa; Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2023

In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability Index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using Round 7 of the Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473199

Economic sectors and globalization channels to gender economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023

This study complements the extant literature by assessing economic sector and globalization channels for gender … gender employment in the industry and the negative effect is driven by the financial globalization sub-component of economic …-components positively affect gender employment in the service sector and the corresponding positive effect is driven by the trade …

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Enhancing ICT for female economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2022

This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic participation in sub-Saharan African nations. Three female economic participation indicators are used, namely female labor force participation, female unemployment and female employment...

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The role of inclusive education in governance for inclusive economic participation : gender evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2021

This study investigates the relevance of inclusive education in moderating the effect of good governance on female economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa. First, inclusive tertiary education modulates: (i) government effectiveness to induce a positive net effect on female labour force...

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Inequality and the economic participation of women in Sub-Saharan Africa : an empirical investigation

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019

indicators of gender inclusion are also employed, namely: female employment and female unemployment rates. The empirical analysis …

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Inequality and gender inclusion : minimum ICT policy thresholds for promoting female employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019

fixed broadband subscriptions. Three gender economic inclusion indicators are also used for the analysis, namely: female … in order to enhance gender economic participation. First, for female labour force participation, a minimum threshold of … favourable effects on gender economic inclusion dynamics. …

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Gender inclusive intermediary education, financial stability and female employment in the industry in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nounamo, Yann; Ndieupa, Henri Njangang; … - 2021

The study examines how financial stability modulates the effect of inclusive intermediary education on female employment in the industry for the period 2008-2018 in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit, Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Quantile regressions. There are...

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Fighting female unemployment : the role of female ownership of bank accounts in complementing female inclusive education

Asongu, Simplice - 2024

employment opportunities for the female gender and by extension, reducing female unemployment. The invalidity of the moderating …

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Gender analysis of labor force outcomes : evidence from Cameroon

Kouam, Jean C.; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

The present study contributes to the extant literature by assessing how financial and human developments moderate the incidence of vulnerable female employment on female labour force participation in Cameroon for the period 1987 to 2020 using the generalized least squares (GLS) estimation...

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