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poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic lowers average income and increases poverty, and that the jump in poverty is … larger than expected from the fall in average income. This disproportionate increase in poverty reflects the large share of … the population living on the threshold of poverty and the higher HIV prevalence rates in those segments of the population …
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Poverty and inequality represent major policy syndromes that are relevant in the achievement of most United Nations … attendant SDGs. The present study extends existing literature by assessing the conditional influence of poverty, income … inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with data from 1980 to …
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Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been …
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This analysis explores the relationship between agricultural R&D investments and rural poverty reduction, and the … prevalence of undernourishment in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It uses a panel data set of internationally comparable poverty dis … gestation period of investments, and applies causal mediation analysis to assess the impact of KS on poverty and hunger and …
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Poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should not be ascertained only on the basis of scarce and unreliable … poverty and inequality have increased over the past 30 years are based on regional income estimates with falling medians and … and more dehumanizing poverty in the years ahead even if meaningful economic growth is achieved. As underscored by the …
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Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole … or no success in reducing poverty, many have had significant achievements. The paper argues that inter … into poverty reduction. Since the 1990s (when poverty data are available) the distinction in terms of poverty reduction can …
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Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been …
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The study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1980 to 2019 using interactive quantile regressions. The following findings are established. First, income inequality unconditionally reduces the...
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Poverty and inequality represent major policy syndromes that are relevant in the achievement of most United Nations … attendant SDGs. The present study extends existing literature by assessing the conditional influence of poverty, income … inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with data from 1980 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357441