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Inequality, Finance and Pro-Poor Investment in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2015
This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa. The empirical evidence is based on restricted and unrestricted Two-Stage Least Squares and a pre-crisis periodicity (1980-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596325
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Mobile banking usage, quality of growth, inequality and poverty in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2017
mobile banking and inclusive development (quality of growth, inequality and poverty) among individuals in 93 developing … development, namely: quality of growth, inequality and poverty. As a main policy implication, encouraging mobile banking … applications would play a substantial role in responding to the challenges of immiserizing growth, inequality and poverty in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784904
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Revisiting the finance-inequality nexus in a panel of African countries
Meniago, Christelle; Asongu, Simplice - 2018
The study assesses the role of financial development on income inequality in a panel of 48 African countries for the period 1996 to 2014. Financial development is defined in terms of depth (money supply and liquid liabilities), efficiency (from banking and financial system perspectives),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956962