, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty …

Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been …

This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty, contingent on the macroeconomic environment within the remit … regression. The results reveal that while poverty has a positive effect on the spread of bribery, inflation can mitigate the … words, the attendant results indicate that the impact of poverty on bribery becomes negative when inflation increases. The …

income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini … index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and the severity of … poverty is generated as the squared of the poverty gap index. An interactive quantile regression approach is used as an …

A recent World Bank report reveals that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of … Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target. This paper investigates the effects of mobile phone technology, knowledge creation …