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Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …-examine their results with a non-monetary and multidimensional poverty indicator first published in 2010. Our findings confirm the … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …
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poverty should take account of the disequalizing income-effect of foreign investment in undeveloped countries. …
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An April 2015 World Bank report on attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target has … revealed that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA … common policy initiatives against a cause of extreme poverty in SSA: capital flight. The richness of the dataset enables the …
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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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This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...
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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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dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … diversity. Hence, poverty is not in the African gene from a within-Africa comparative standpoint. Policy implications are …
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The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...
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-specific and microeconomic survey-based approaches is on 52 African countries. 'Mobile phone'-oriented poverty reduction channels …
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'-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value - It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic …
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