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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 V.; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586929
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817127
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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; Tanankem, Belmondo; Asongu, Simplice - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123786
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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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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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Patterns of total factor productivity growth in Mexico : 1991-2011
Ramos, Luis Fernando Colunga; Torre Cepeda, Leonardo Egidio - 2015
We review some patterns of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the Mexican economy during the period 1991-2011 using the KLEMS data set published by INEGI in 2013. The data shows a strong positive correlation between TFP and output growth. As a result, tests were performed in order to...
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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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Technology and productivity: a critique of aggregate indicators
Block, Fred L. - 2022
Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which economies are utilizing advances in technology. However, this measure is problematic on several different dimensions. First, the idea that it is possible to separate out the relative...
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