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This paper examines the governance-"education quality" nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the … following findings are established. First, from the OLS, governance variables are negatively correlated with poor education … education quality in the lowest quantile of poor education quality. With the exception of corruption-control, the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389231
This paper examines the governance-"education quality" nexus in a panel of 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the … following findings are established. First, from the OLS, governance variables are negatively correlated with poor education … education quality in the lowest quantile of poor education quality. With the exception of corruption-control, the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301777
This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … interact with primary school education to decrease income inequality. Second, all ICT indicators interact with secondary school … education to exert a negative impact on the Gini index. Third, fixed broadband distinctly interacts with primary school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112222
This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … interact with primary school education to decrease income inequality. Second, all ICT indicators interact with secondary school … education to exert a negative impact on the Gini index. Third, fixed broadband distinctly interacts with primary school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060740
This research assesses the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in primary education quality in … reduce poor quality education and enhancing internet penetration has a net negative effect o f greater magnitude. From the … penetration, ICT consistently has a negative effect on poor education quality with a non-monotonic pattern. (ii) Net negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112150
Purpose - This study examines how doing business affects inclusive human development in 48 sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. Design/methodology/approach - The measurement of inclusive human development encompasses both absolute pro-poor and relative pro-poor concepts of inclusive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112161
This paper provides a systematic review of challenges to doing business in Africa. It complements the extant literature by answering two critical questions: what are the linkages between the ease of doing business and economic development; and what are the challeng es to doing business in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112177
The study examines the relationship between tourism and social media from a cross section of 138 countries with data for the year 2012.The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. Two main findings are established. First, there is a...
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This study examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on remittances for industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The empirical evidence is based on three simultaneity-robust estimation techniques, namely: (i) Instrumental Fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112192
The present study investigates how increasing bank accounts and bank concentration affect mobile money innovations in 148 countries. It builds on scholarly and policy concerns in the literature that increasing bank accounts may not be having the desired effects on financial inclusion on the one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549269