been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has …

severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators …, ICT usage, and ICT access, ICT skills is remarkable in reducing both the severity and intensity of poverty. The results … further unveil that, though ICT skills reduce the intensity and severity of poverty in SSA, the effect is more pronounced in …

relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity …This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the …

This study examines the impact of population growth on the economic growth of African countries using panel data … approach from 1980 -2015. The impact of population growth on economic growth is still largely controversial at national and … Indicators database. Data were collected for economic growth, proxied by GDP, population growth, fertility rate, crude death rate …

This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … are established. (i) Income inequality unconditionally reduces poverty and the severity of poverty though the significance … significantly moderate the positive incidence of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in some quantiles. (iii …

This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household income inequality whereas financial development is proxied with financial depth …

other financial sectors has a disequalizing income effect. (2) Growth of informal and semi-formal financial sectors at the …

-specific and microeconomic survey-based approaches is on 52 African countries. 'Mobile phone'-oriented poverty reduction channels …

'-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value - It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic … survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the ‘mobile phone’-inequality …