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Agricultural modernization, structural change and pro-poor growth : policy options for the Democratic Republic of Congo

Otchia, Christian - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 3 (2014), pp. 1-43

redistribution to changes in poverty in DRC. The findings indicate that labor-using technological change generates absolute and … results suggest that labor-using technological change can be independently sufficient for reducing poverty via the income …

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Technological Advancement and the Evolving Gender Identities : A Focus on the Level of Female Economic Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Tanankem, Belmondo; … - 2016

This study investigates how technological advancement improves gender identity by means of female economic participation in a panel 48 African countries for the period 1990-2014. Two indicators are used to measure female economic participation, namely, the: female labour force participation and...

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Technological advancement and the evolving gender identities : a focus on the level of female economic participation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Tanankem, Belmondo V.; … - 2016

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Female economic participation with information and communication technology (ICT) advancement : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Voufo, Belmondo Tanankem; … - 2018

This study complements existing literature by investigating how the advancement in information and communication technology affects the formal economic participation of women. The focus is on 48 African countries for the period 1990-2014. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least...

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Technology access, inclusive growth and poverty reduction in Nigeria : evidence from error correction modeling approach

Oshota, Sebil Olalekan - In: Zagreb international review of economics & business 22 (2019) 2, pp. 1-21

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Electronic wallet technology and the enabling environment of smallholder farmers in Nigeria

Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.; Asongu, Simplice - 2019

) in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach - This paper adopts a survey research technique, aimed at gathering information … exist at present. A total of one thousand, two hundred farmers were sampled across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria … country. Practical implication - This implies that if the federal government of Nigeria is to work towards an ideal …

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Technological progress with segmented factor markets and welfare implications for the urban poor

Mukherjee, Soumyatanu; Zafar, Sameen - 2015

poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a … is less capital intensive (as capital flows to the informal sectors). This helps in understanding trends in urban poverty … given the strong association between the urban informal wage and degree of urban poverty. …

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Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? : electrical power as a case study

Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea; Solomou, Solomos - 2014

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in economies? The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the USA, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to...

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Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime

Schneider, Maik T.; Winkler, Ralph - 2010 - This version: September 2010

We develop a perpetual youth model to investigate how longevity affects economic growth and welfare. Life expectancy is determined by individuals’ investments in healthcare. We find that improvements in the healthcare technology always increase the steady state growth rate. Although the effect...

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Culture, diffusion, and economic development

Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016

This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally equivalent. In particular, using a large set of measures of...

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