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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112214
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052994
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864679
the high size of working population exhibit some mitigating effects on wealth inequality at lower quantiles and the …. Accordingly, improving access to education and decent jobs can help fight inequality in relatively young population context while … labour market adjustment through government effectiveness could lead to wealth inequality reduction in relatively old …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549406
the high size of working population exhibit some mitigating effects on wealth inequality at lower quantiles and the …. Accordingly, improving access to education and decent jobs can help fight inequality in relatively young population context while … labour market adjustment through government effectiveness could lead to wealth inequality reduction in relatively old …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419124
Inequality and gender economic exclusion are major policy concerns facing sub-Saharan Africa in the post-2015 … development agenda. The study provides critical masses of inequality that should not be exceeded if governance is to promote …. First, inequality (i.e. the Gini coefficient) levels that completely nullify the positive effect of governance on female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112201
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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mobile banking and inclusive development (quality of growth, inequality and poverty) among individuals in 93 developing … (inequality) in quantiles at the high-end of inclusive development distributions for the most part. The study is original in that … development, namely: quality of growth, inequality and poverty. As a main policy implication, encouraging mobile banking …
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This study provides thresholds of inequality that should not be exceeded if gender inclusive education is to enhance … and inequality is unfavourable to gender economic inclusion. Second, a Gini coefficient that nullifies the positive … associated with lower levels of education are not significant. As the main policy implication, income inequality should not be …
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