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We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in ….646 and 0.761. Second, the increased use of mobile phones to send/receive money is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in …
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This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1980 to 2019. Mobile money innovations are understood … Gini index. Poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio while the severity of poverty is generated as the squared of …
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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...
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A recent publication by the World Bank on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has established that extreme poverty has … growth resurgence. This chapter explores the role of transfer pricing in SSA's extreme poverty tragedy. The analytical … high levels of exclusive growth and extreme poverty, (iii) the practice of transfer pricing by multinationals operating in …
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proposed in tackling the spirit of African poverty is a holistic commitment to fighting illicit capital flight based on …
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poverty should take account of the disequalizing income-effect of foreign investment in undeveloped countries …
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Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been …
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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 …
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