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The welfare effects of financial inclusion in Ghana : an exploration based on a multidimensional measure of financial inclusion
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael - 2021
financial inclusion would be important in the quest to reduce the incidence of poverty and vulnerability as well as inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650895
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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana : a micro-level analysis
Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2020
poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural … hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161597
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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysis
Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2020
poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural … hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423989
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Do gender wage differences within households influence women's empowerment and welfare? Evidence from Ghana
Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Boakye, Ernest Owusu - 2021
Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The structural parameters of the post-double selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651111
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The welfare effects of financial inclusion in Ghana: An exploration based on a multidimensional measure of financial inclusion
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael - 2021
financial inclusion would be important in the quest to reduce the incidence of poverty and vulnerability as well as inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705344
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Do gender wage differences within households influence women's empowerment and welfare? : evidence from Ghana
Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Boakye, Ernest Owusu - 2021
Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The structural parameters of the post-double selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434240
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Tax effort revisited: New estimates from the Government Revenue Dataset
McNabb, Kyle; Danquah, Michael; Tagem, Abrams M. E. - 2021
Attention on domestic resource mobilization-particularly in developing countries- has increased significantly in recent years. This stems from, among other things, recognition in the Sustainable Development Goals that further domestic funding is required for development needs, and the Addis Tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705368
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Tax effort revisited : new estimates from the Government Revenue Dataset
McNabb, Kyle; Danquah, Michael; Tagem, Abrams M. E. - 2021
Attention on domestic resource mobilization-particularly in developing countries- has increased significantly in recent years. This stems from, among other things, recognition in the Sustainable Development Goals that further domestic funding is required for development needs, and the Addis Tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012666864
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The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Lastunen, Jesse; Rattenhuber, Pia; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; … - 2021
-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … discretionary tax-benefit policies in alleviating the shock. Our analysis shows modest increases in headcount poverty rates and … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650881
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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South : a comparative assessment
Lastunen, Jesse; Mahieu, Antoine de; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024
This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534792