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gender inclusive formal economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised …
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income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini … index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and the severity of … poverty is generated as the squared of the poverty gap index. An interactive quantile regression approach is used as an …
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This study investigates the impact of foreign capital inflows on poverty in Vietnam, using annual time series data from … the poverty alleviation agenda. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and external debt were used as proxies for foreign capital … inflows; and infant mortality rate, Human Development Index (HDI) and household consumption expenditure were used as poverty …
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This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …
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This study assesses human development thresholds at which mobile banking mitigates poverty and inequality in 93 … used to receive/send money’ have an appealing role in promoting inclusive development in all poverty distributions, with ….705 in inequality and poverty specifications, respectively. The relevance of the findings is discussed in light of the …
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