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, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two … illustrate how such diversion of funds overseas are related to the spread of poverty in the African economies. We enunciate a …
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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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We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … Middle East and North Africa) and income levels (upper middle income, lower middle income and low income). Our results show … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in …
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Despite the evolving literature on the development benefits of mobile phones, we still know very little about factors that influence their adoption. Using twenty five policy variables, we investigate determinants of mobile phone penetration in 49 Sub-Saharan African countries with data for the...
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Despite the evolving literature on the development benefits of mobile phones, we still know very little about factors that influence their adoption. Using twenty five policy variables, we investigate determinants of mobile phone penetration in 49 Sub-Saharan African countries with data for the...
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This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich...
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This study assesses how information diffusion dampens the adverse effect of market power on the price and quantity of loans provided by a panel of 162 banks from 39 African countries for the period 2001-2011. The empirical evidence is based on three endogenity-robust estimation techniques,...
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in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). More specifically, we investigate the complementary role of knowledge diffusion in the …
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arguments on the need for a development paradigm in Africa that reconciles the Washington Consensus with the Beijing Model. The …
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