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This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich...
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This study assesses the relationship between globalisation and the economic participation of women (EPW) in 47 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1990-2013. Two indicators are used to measure EPW, namely, the: female labour force participation and employment rates. The empirical...
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This study assesses the relationship between globalisation and the economic participation of women (EPW) in 47 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1990-2013. EPW is measured with the female labour force participation and employment rates. The empirical evidence is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112138
This study assesses human development thresholds at which mobile banking mitigates poverty and inequality in 93 …" contribute to reducing inequality in countries at the bottom and top ends of the inequality distribution, while (ii) "mobiles ….705 in inequality and poverty specifications, respectively. The relevance of the findings is discussed in light of the …
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Poverty and inequality represent major policy syndromes that are relevant in the achievement of most United Nations … inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with data from 1980 to … 2019. The Gini index is used to measure income inequality. Poverty is measured in terms of the poverty headcount ratio …
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This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … as the mobile used to send money and the mobile used to pay bills online while income inequality is measured with the … are established. (i) Income inequality unconditionally reduces poverty and the severity of poverty though the significance …
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We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … at HDI thresholds of 0.725, 0.727 and 0.778 and; (ii) inequality in UMIC and LA with HDI thresholds of respectively 0 … (ii) inequality in UMIC, CEE and LA at HDI thresholds of 0.665, 0.736 and 0.726 respectively. The findings are discussed …
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between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …) and negatively correlated with inequality in Latin American countries (LA). Second, growing use of mobile phones to send …
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This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542429
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