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This study examines linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) dynamics, inequality and poverty in … deepening plays in advancing inclusive education by means of policies that reduce poverty and income inequality, with … order to establish critical masses of poverty and inequality that should not be exceeded in order for ICT dynamics to …
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This study examines linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) dynamics, inequality and poverty in … deepening plays in advancing inclusive education by means of policies that reduce poverty and income inequality, with … order to establish critical masses of poverty and inequality that should not be exceeded in order for ICT dynamics to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436926
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638884
tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education’s equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003383927
This study uses nightlight time data and machine learning techniques to predict industrial development in Africa. The results provide the first evidence on how machine learning techniques and nightlight data can be used to predict economic development in places where subnational data are missing...
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Purpose - This study investigates how bank size affects the role of information asymmetry on financial access in a panel of 162 banks in 39 African countries for the period 2001-2011. Design/methodology/approach - The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable Fixed Effects regressions...
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This article examines the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of … education on life insurance and non-life insurance consumption in 48 African countries for the period 2004-2014. Education is … established. First, from the nexuses between education, ICT and life insurance, there are positive conditional effects from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112216
This article examines the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of … education on life insurance and non-life insurance consumption in 48 African countries for the period 2004-2014. Education is … established. First, from the nexuses between education, ICT and life insurance, there are positive conditional effects from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058449
This study explored whether globalisation and technology are harmful to health for a global panel dataset of 52 … empirical evidence highlights the significance of globalisation and technology in promoting global health. Our findings are not … that technology is useful in tracking, monitoring, and promoting global health. In addition, our empirical evidence …
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