As the 2030 target year for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) draws closer, development practitioners … are increasing their activities in regions where poverty is predominant. In 2018, Nigeria attained an unenviable position … of being the country with the highest number of persons living in extreme poverty in terms of poverty count, overtaking …

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 …

In developing countries, taxation is perceived as a brake on economic growth. Indeed, taxes in most of these countries … Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries, taking three approaches: thematic, chronological, and methodological. Most … studies agree that high taxes in business undermine social innovation and thus the achievement of SDGs, as social innovation …

out of thirteen goals (Goal 1 "No poverty", Goal 2 "Zero Hunger", Goal 6 "Clean water and sanitation", Goal 8 "Decent work … achievement of most of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at local level in African countries. We use the … causality. The findings reveal that ICTs have a positive and significant effect on the achievement of SDGs, notably, in eight …

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 …

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 …

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 …