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Fixing the Business of Food : Aligning Food Company Practices with the SDGs
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia … - 2021
, health, education, and others) to achieve the SDGs, fulfill the Paris Climate Agreement, and ultimately, to build the future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211290
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How Enhancing Information and Communication Technology Has Affected Inequality in Africa for Sustainable Development : An Empirical Investigation
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
This study examines if enhancing ICT reduces inequality in 48 countries in Africa for the period 2004-2014. Three inequality indictors are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index and Palma ratio. The adopted ICT indicators include: mobile phone penetration, internet penetration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896792
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Tourism, ICT and inclusive development: global evidence
Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2022
This study empirically examines the effect of tourism and ICT on inclusive development. Inclusive development is approached as human development adjusted for environmental sustainability; ICT is based on mobile phones subscription rate, internet penetration and fixed broadband subscription and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257112
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How enhancing information and communication technology has affected inequality in Africa for sustainable development : an empirical investigation
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
This study examines if enhancing ICT reduces inequality in 48 countries in Africa for the period 2004-2014. Three inequality indictors are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index and Palma ratio. The adopted ICT indicators include: mobile phone penetration, internet penetration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998529
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Basic formal education quality, information technology and inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
This study assesses the relevance of basic formal education in information technology for inclusive human development in 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The question it aims to answer is the following: what is the relevance of basic formal education in the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998646
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The emergence of inclusive growth : issues, challenges and policy options for Nigeria
Eregha, Perekunah B.; Mesagan, Ekundayo P. - 2019
able to achieve inclusive growth as dependency ratio, poverty and depletion of natural capital is very high. Also, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107783
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Inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2020
This study assesses the role of income levels (low and middle) in modulating governance (political and economic) to influence inclusive human development. The empirical evidence is based on interactive quantile regressions and forty-nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181776
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Insurance and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa : policy thresholds
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2020
In this study, we examine how insurance affects income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa, using data from 42 countries during the period 2004-2014. Three inequality variables are used, namely: the Gini coefficient, the Atkinson index and the Palma ratio. Two insurance premiums are employed,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165284
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The central position of agriculture within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Omilola, Babatunde; Robele, Sophia - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110208
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Asia's sectoral transformation, evolving diets, and the consequences for climate change
Larson, Donald Frederick - 2024
to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting … the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture …
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