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New Financial Development Indicators : With a Critical Contribution to Inequality Empirics

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...

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Comparative determinants of quality of growth in developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - In: International journal of happiness and development 4 (2018) 1, pp. 65-89

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How Enhancing Gender Inclusion Affects Inequality : Thresholds of Complementary Policies for Sustainable Development

Asongu, Simplice - 2020

This study investigates how enhancing gender inclusion affects inequality in 42 African countries for the period 2004-2014. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalized Method of Moments. Three inequality indicators are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index, and Palma ratio....

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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : Kuznets, Piketty and the great policy reversal

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of Piketty. Abandoning the former's view that inequality...

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Investment and Inequality in Africa : Which Financial Channels are Good for the Poor?

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

This paper examines how domestic, foreign, private and public investments affect income-inequality through financial intermediary dynamics. With the exception of financial allocation efficiency, financial channels of depth and activity are good for the poor as they diminish estimated household...

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Information technology, inequality and adult literacy in developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M.; Rahman, Mushfiqur - 2023

The study assesses linkages between information technology, inequality and adult literacy in 57 developing countries for the period 2012-2016. Income inequality is measured with the Gini coefficient while six dynamics of information technology are taken on board, namely: use of virtual social...

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The relationship between inequality and poverty in developing countries : mitigating role of virtual social network and internet access in schools

Asongu, Simplice; Agyemang-Mintah, Peter - In: International journal of social economics 52 (2025) 2, pp. 191-204

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Mobile banking usage, quality of growth, inequality and poverty in developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2017

The transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals has substantially shifted the policy debate from development to inclusive development. Using interactive quantile regressions, we examine the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (quality...

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Comparative human development thresholds for absolute and relative pro-poor mobile banking in developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year 2011. Mobile banking entails: 'mobile phones used to pay bills' and 'mobile phones used to receive/send money', while the modifying policy indicator is the...

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Rational asymmetric development, Piketty and poverty in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

An April 2015 World Bank report on the Millennium Development Goal poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has … been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa. This study extends the implications of Thomas … development increases and Africa may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal solution, Piketty has proposed progressive …

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