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convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in 38 African countries, disaggregated into 10 … is that the income component of the human development index moves slower than others in the convergence process and thus … requires a more focused policy intervention. As a policy implication, looking beyond income convergence can provide a concrete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390790
convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in 38 African countries, disaggregated into 10 … is that the income component of the human development index moves slower than others in the convergence process and thus … requires a more focused policy intervention. As a policy implication, looking beyond income convergence can provide a concrete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410273
plethora of middle class indicators, notably, the: floating, middle-class with floating, middle-class without floating, lower-middle-income … and upper-middle-income categories. Results can be classified into two main strands. First, results on determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390886
plethora of middle class indicators, notably, the: floating, middle-class with floating, middle-class without floating, lower-middle-income … and upper-middle-income categories. Results can be classified into two main strands. First, results on determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409206
Despite over three decades of Liberalisation policies in Africa, income-inequality has stayed persistently high. Using … policies with particular focus on financial, trade, institutional, political and economic liberalisations on income-inequality …. We find: that financial liberalisation has a levitated income-redistributive effect with the magnitude of the de jure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258091
eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in … negative relationship and the nexus disappears with control for average income. Hence, confirming the conclusions of the …) future research to ascertain the inequality mechanism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390893
This paper extends the growing literature on knowledge economy by investigating the effect of intelligence on economic diversification. Using a battery of estimation techniques that are robust to endogeneity, we find that human capital has positive correlations with export diversification,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390894
The transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has shifted the policy debate from growth to 'quality of growth' (QG). The April 2015 World Bank publication on MDGs extreme poverty targets has revealed that poverty has been decreasing in all...
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This paper extends the growing literature on knowledge economy by investigating the effect of intelligence on economic diversification. Using a battery of estimation techniques that are robust to endogeneity, we find that human capital has positive correlations with export diversification,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409113
eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in … negative relationship and the nexus disappears with control for average income. Hence, confirming the conclusions of the …) future research to ascertain the inequality mechanism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409163