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Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth
Fernández, Raquel; Luna, Francesco; Rambousek, Barbara - 2021
This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238140
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Burkina Faso : shipping around the Malthusian trap
Grimm, Michael; Wetta, Claude; Nikiema, Aude - 2014
Burkina Faso has experienced quite significant aggregate growth over the past two decades, but that growth has not been transformed into poverty reduction. The key obstacles preventing large-scale escape from poverty are very high population growth combined with the absence of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410776
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How do institutions matter in the income-equalizing effect of mobile phone penetration?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
The object of this paper is to complement theoretical 'mobile penetration' literature with empirical evidence in a dual manner: on the one hand, assess the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and; on the other hand, the instrumentality of good governance in this nexus. Main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409942
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The impact of mobile phone penetration on African inequality
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the ‘mobile phone’-inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409960
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Addressing the severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa : how relevant is the ICT and financial development pathway?
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Armah, Mark Kojo; Taale, Francis; … - 2021
The study examines the effectiveness of financial development, financial access, and ICT diffusion in reducing the severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, and the Global Consumption and Income Project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650683
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What effects could global value chain and digital infrastructure development policies have on poverty and inequality after COVID-19?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Cuesta, José; Kugler, Maurice; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29
development (DID)-which can boost telework and virtual human capital accumulation. Reduction in poverty and inequality through … project their impact on poverty and inequality up to 2030. Our findings show limited impact of the three types of policy …) lower barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of DID on inequality is also moot. There is however a modest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816153
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Inequality in Mexico : labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989-2014
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lustig, Nora; Scott, John - 2018
Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966562
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Degrees of poverty : the relationship between family income background and the returns to education
Bartik, Timothy J.; Hershbein, Brad - 2018
Drawing on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we document a startling empirical pattern: the career earnings premium from a four-year college degree (relative to a high school diploma) for persons from low-income backgrounds is considerably less than it is for those from higher-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806297
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Poverty and inequality in Tunisia: recent trends
Kokas, Deeksha; El Lahga, Abdel Rahman; López Acevedo, … - 2021
Tunisia's reforms and agile shift to a more democratic political system since a major political revolution in 2011 has not prevented continued and rising citizen discontent. While this paper does not directly analyze this vexing problem, it assesses welfare indicators and labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596245
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Economic development strategy, openness and rural poverty: A framework and China's experiences
Lin, Justin Yifu; Liu, Peilin - 2006
This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country’s long-term economic development strategy. Development strategies can be broadly divided into two mutually exclusive groups: (i) the comparative advantage-defying (CAD) strategy, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284522