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What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using...
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Senegal has experienced a rapid expansion in fixed and mobile broadband Internet infrastructure over the past decade. This paper examines the relationship between access to broadband internet and household welfare between 2011 and 2018 by integrating the latest two rounds of household budget...
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With the year 2015 - the MDG finishing line - approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world … rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …
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-employment ; informality ; developing country labor markets ; Africa …
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the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent …
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Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing …, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These countries show contrasted situations in terms of income distribution. We …
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by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall … European ex-colonial powers. -- Skilled migration ; Africa ; colonization ; networks ; economic reasons …
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prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of "free" migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …. In Africa today, economic growth has faltered, its economies have fallen further behind the highwage OECD leaders, and …
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The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this …" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social implications. Next I evaluate the …
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fertility and GDP nor to gender inequality as measured by the Gender Gap Index. -- cognitive maths skills ; gender ; Africa …
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