The paper appraised the emanating effect of COVID-19 on sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Nigeria through the … including poverty, limited access to health care, low education quality, poor road networks among others, could be further … entrenched. These incidents could be detrimental to sustainable development goals (SDGs) 2030 agenda. The current crisis …

financial crimes in Africa and their impact on economic growth. We adopted the PRISMA protocol to identify 128 papers from the … Western Africa, Southern Africa and Eastern Africa. Socio-political marginalization, poverty and unemployment, weak … of the studies indicates that financial crimes have significant negative impacts on the economic growth of the African …

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 …

between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year … use of the mobile phones to pay bills: is positively linked to 'quality of growth' in lower-middle income countries (LMIC …) and negatively correlated with inequality in Latin American countries (LA). Second, growing use of mobile phones to send …

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 …

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 …

The debate on the need for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to foster inclusive growth has intensified following the … integration and resource allocation, and (2) social equity policies on inclusive growth in SSA. Using data from the World Bank … moments estimators to show that: (1) though economic integration induces inclusive growth, the effect is higher in the …

This paper shows that in Tanzania, economic growth contributes to job creation and employment opportunities, however …, it does very little to curb income inequality. Using official data from various local sources compiled by the National … Tanzania fails to bring the level of poverty to a level roughly comparable to what is found in the region and to reduce …

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 …