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The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …
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severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators …, ICT usage, and ICT access, ICT skills is remarkable in reducing both the severity and intensity of poverty. The results … further unveil that, though ICT skills reduce the intensity and severity of poverty in SSA, the effect is more pronounced in …
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The debate on the need for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to foster inclusive growth has intensified following the coming into force of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic. A conspicuous lacuna in the literature is a lack of...
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Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been …
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This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty, contingent on the macroeconomic environment within the remit … regression. The results reveal that while poverty has a positive effect on the spread of bribery, inflation can mitigate the … words, the attendant results indicate that the impact of poverty on bribery becomes negative when inflation increases. The …
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income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini … index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and the severity of … poverty is generated as the squared of the poverty gap index. An interactive quantile regression approach is used as an …
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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 …
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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 ….646 and 0.761. Second, the increased use of mobile phones to send/receive money is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in …
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between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …/receive money is negatively associated with poverty in Asia and Pacific (AP) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Originality …
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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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