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The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only what made it possible but also and more importantly what risk factors may eventually bring it to an end or compromise it. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for...
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Is China-Africa economic relation instrumental for capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ? Does it matter in the … capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ. The construction of a theoretical framework highlighting stylized fact and the … as capital flight and; (b) The capital flight contributes to improving the level of poverty in Africa. Overall, we can …
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which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …) political liberalization has a disequalizing effect and; (3) economic freedom has a positive (negative) effect on inequality …
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able to achieve inclusive growth as dependency ratio, poverty and depletion of natural capital is very high. Also, health … incidence of poverty to the barest minimum to ensure that growth becomes inclusive. …
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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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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 … at HDI thresholds of 0.725, 0.727 and 0.778 and; (ii) inequality in UMIC and LA with HDI thresholds of respectively 0 …
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between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …) and negatively correlated with inequality in Latin American countries (LA). Second, growing use of mobile phones to send …/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 assesses human development thresholds at which mobile banking mitigates poverty and inequality in 93 ….705 in inequality and poverty specifications, respectively. The relevance of the findings is discussed in light of the …" contribute to reducing inequality in countries at the bottom and top ends of the inequality distribution, while (ii) "mobiles …
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This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … are established. (i) Income inequality unconditionally reduces poverty and the severity of poverty though the significance … significantly moderate the positive incidence of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in some quantiles. (iii …
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inequality before as well as after taxes and transfers. Results show that increased in banking contributes to the upsurge in … income inequality in developing countries. These results were robust to spatial analysis for Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin … points to significantly reduce inequality. …
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