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lockouts over internet-related services seem to be a major challenge for millennials in Africa, who are actors in innovation by … in Africa, who continue to be marginalized while investing and contributing to the internet economy. …One of the biggest news stories in the past decade has been the increasing impact of the internet and information …
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understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in …, Mozambique, and South Africa. We conclude that the balance between policies aimed at growth and measures aimed at redistribution …
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The Internet has significantly expanded worldwide, changing our relationship with the world, and the way we communicate …, educate, and inform ourselves. Africa, despite having a very low number of fixed-broadband subscriptions for 100 inhabitants …, has not escaped the Internet phenomenon, as the number of individuals with Internet access has risen from 2 in 2002 to 39 …
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This study traces the interactions between economic growth, income inequality and consumption poverty in a sample of African countries during the 1990s. It draws on the much-improved household data sets now available in the region. It finds that experiences have varied: some countries have seen...
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The paper empirically investigates, in the context of African countries, the determinants of income distribution and inequality, the effect of inequality on economic growth, and the channels through which inequality affects growth. Data for 35 countries over different periods in the last four...
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Network neutrality regulations for the Internet have been discussed for about a decade. In Europe recent efforts have … produced a proposal by the European Commission that envisages the introduction of a two-tiered Internet traffic regulation … based on a regulatory market split between the markets for 'public' Internet traffic services and the markets for …
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Im Juni 2022 wurden mit der TK-Mindestversorgungsverordnung (TKMV) technische Mindestanforderungen für den Internetzugangsdienst festgelegt (Datenübertragungsrate im Down- und Upload und maximal tolerierte Latenz). Ob die 2021 von wik und zafaco ermittelten Werte weiterhin Bestand haben und ob...
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This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. Children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access are compared with i) those who … did not receive laptops and ii) those who only received laptops without internet. It is found that providing free internet …
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(AI), Big Data Analytics, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things (IoT) have brought the world on the cusp …
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The article discusses the motivations for a holistic assessment of the digital economy. It outlines the pilot assessment program initiated by the World Bank Group and describes the assessment frameworks, tools, and processes deployed in selected pilot countries. It identifies the common...
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