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Urbanized and savvy: Which African firms are making the most of mobile money?

Ackah, Charles; Hanley, Aoife; Hecker, Lars; Kodom, Michael - 2024

Our analysis of over 500 Ghanaian firms sheds light, for the first time, on how certain firms managed to extract value from mobile money. Our regressions point to the usefulness of this form of cashless payments in stabilizing sales during the COVID pandemic. Perhaps the most important message...

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Urbanized and savvy : which African firms are making the most of mobile money?

Ackah, Charles; Hanley, Aoife; Hecker, Lars - 2024

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The urbanisation of poverty : lessons from a dichotomous poverty alleviation strategy

Lesetedi, Gwen N. - In: Debt relief initiatives and poverty alleviation : …, (pp. 56-73). 2004

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Harnessing Urbanization to End Poverty and Boost Prosperity in Africa

World Bank - 2014

than half of Africa's population will live in its cities by 2040. In the face of rapid urbanization, there is a narrow … to achieve sustainable development and poverty reduction. Despite its rapid urban growth, Africa is less than halfway … of service delivery. This paper is organized in following chapters: chapter one discusses why is it urgent to get Africa …

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Cash in the city : emerging lessons from implementing cash transfers in urban Africa

Gentilini, Ugo; Khosla, Saksham; Almenfi, Mohamed; … - 2021

Poverty and crises are rapidly â€œurbanizingâ€ . Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer responses to Covid-19 in eleven African countries. The analysis contextualizes...

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The politics of basic needs : urban aspects of assaulting poverty in Africa

Sandbrook, Richard - 1982

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Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization : what experience for African countries?

Ngounou, Borice Augustin; Tekam Oumbé, Honoré; Nkoa, … - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 28 (2024) 1, pp. 34-70

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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

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Green Urban Development : The Impact Investment Strategy of Canadian Pension Funds

Beath, Alexander; Betermier, Sebastien; Van Bragt, Maaike; … - 2021

This paper investigates the investment strategy that large Canadian pension funds implement in the private real estate market. Even though they manage just 6% of global pension assets in our data, Canadian pension funds are responsible for 60% of the total value of direct real estate deals...

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Urbanisation in India : problems and prospects

Venkateswarlu, Ummareddy - 1998

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