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Telecommunication submarine-cable deployment and the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cariolle, Joël - 2018

percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent's population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …

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Narrowing the "digital divide" : the role of complementarities between fixed and mobile data in South Africa

Hawthorne, Ryan; Grzybowski, Lukasz - 2019

access to an internet connection at work or school are more important than reducing mobile data prices by 10% in driving …

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Distribution and use of knowledge under the laws of the web

Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2007

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Epidemic exposure, fintech adoption, and the digital divide

Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021

,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with information on the incidence of epidemics and local 3G internet infrastructure …

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Flow of ideas : economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; Koschnick, Julius - 2022

Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3,300 members across active economic societies in...

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Return, circular, and onward migration decisions in a knowledge society

Constant, Amelie - 2019

This chapter provides a state-of-the-art literature review about research that aims to explain the return, repeat, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the knowledge economy and the international race for talent, it...

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Pro-poor price trends and inequality : the case of India

Almås, Ingvild; Kjelsrud, Anders - 2016

It is well known that people’s consumption patterns change with income. Relative price changes therefore affect rich and poor consumers differently. Yet, the standard price indices are not income-specific and hence, the use of these mask these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we...

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Ageing and fiscal imbalances across generations : concepts of measurement

Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003

In the literature, several approaches have been taken to measure the impact of demographic ageing on public pension schemes, with particular attention being paid to potential fiscal imbalances across the generations involved in demographic transition. In this paper, we review three of these...

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Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States

Hufe, Paul; Kobus, Martyna; Peichl, Andreas; Schüle, Paul - 2022

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …

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