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Can a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention teach financial skills to youth? : experimental evidence from a financial diaries study
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Herrera, Alejandro; Prina, … - 2023
We study the impact of a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention on youth's financial literacy and financial behavior. To maximize the chances to reach out-of-school youth, we provided access to a user-friendly budget recording tool coupled with biweekly enumerators' visits and SMSs during a...
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The role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on inequality
Tchamyou, Vanessa Simen - 2018
This study examines the role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on income inequality … financing constraints in order to ultimately reduce inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993584
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Inequality, ICT and financial access in Africa
Tchamyou, Vanessa S.; Erreygers, Guido; Cassimon, Danny - 2018
This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …
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The comparative economics of financial access in gender economic inclusion
Asongu, Simplice; Nting, Rexon T. - 2020
The study has investigated the comparative importance of financial access in promoting gender inclusion in African countries. Gender inclusion is proxied by the female labour participation rate while financial channels include: financial system deposits and private domestic credit. The empirical...
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The nexus between financial development and poverty reduction in Egypt
Kheir, Vivian Bushra - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 3 (2018) 2, pp. 40-55
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the impact of financial development on poverty reduction in Egypt. The paper also investigates whether financial development affects poverty via gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Design/methodology/approach - This study uses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156882
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Financial Development and Economic Growth : Evidence from Ghana
Adusei, Michael - 2014
The paper employs cointegration, Fully-Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS), error correction and the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) techniques to investigate the relationship between economic growth and financial development using annual time series data (1971-2010) from Ghana. Three...
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For a political economy of financialization : theory and evidence
Braga, José Carlos de Souza; Oliveira, Giuliano Contento de - In: Economia e sociedade : revista do Instituto de Economia … 26 (2017), pp. 829-856
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024002
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An empirical assessment of the contribution of financialization and corporate governance to the rise in income inequality
Dünhaupt, Petra - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of financialization and changes in corporate governance on income inequality for a … financialization and hence changes in corporate governance are relevant contributors to the rise in income inequality. Our results … sample of 13 OECD countries between 1980 and 2010. Though financialization and changes in corporate governance have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408326
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The vanishing effect of finance on growth
Gründler, Klaus - 2015
stronger in countries with sophisticated public education systems, low levels of income inequality, as well as low fertility …
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Evaluating the relationship between financial sustainability and socio-economic development of countries
Kremen, Viktoriia; Shkolnyk, Inna; Semenog, Andrii; … - In: Central European economic journal 6 (2019) 53, pp. 25-38
This paper examines the mainstream theories of "financial sustainability" and "financial development". It is suggested understanding "financial development" as the complex dynamic characteristics of the financial sector, which is formed under the influence of financial and economic policy...
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