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Recent advances in finance for inclusive development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice A.; Moor, Lieven de - 2015
The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...
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Recent finance advances in information technology for inclusive development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017
The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We survey about 180 recently published papers to provide recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638882
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Recent finance advances in information technology for inclusive development : a systematic review
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2018
The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We systematically review about 180 recently published papers to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998250
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The endogeneity-to-demand of the national emergency utilization rate
Nikiforos, Michalis - 2021
The paper provides an empirical discussion of the national emergency utilization rate (NEUR), which is based on a …-2019, the NEUR decreased by 14.2 percent. The paper examines the trajectory of potential determinants of capacity utilization … have moved in a direction that would lead to an increase in utilization. The main factor that can explain the decrease in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548209
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Notes on the accumulation and utilization of capital : some empirical issues
Nikiforos, Michalis - 2020
utilization. First, it explains why utilization is a crucial variable for the various theories of growth and distribution …-run rate of utilization of capital. Finally, it argues that when it comes to the normal rate of utilization, it is the expected … Nikiforos (2016), it provides an in-depth examination of the Federal Reserve measure of capacity utilization and shows that it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208160
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The utilization and potential of solar energy in Somalia : current state and prospects
Abdullahi Mohamed Samatar; Saad Mekhilef; Hazlie Mokhlis; … - In: Energy strategy reviews 48 (2023), pp. 1-15
energy potential due to its location near the equator, the utilization of solar energy in Somalia is still limited due to … Plan (NDP) 9th (2020-2024). This study aims to analyze and verify the utilization and potential of solar energy in Somalia … Bacadweyene, Somalia, is also presented. The research provides valuable information on the status of the utilization and potential …
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Nexus between healthcare financing and output per capita : analysis of countries in ECOWAS sub-region
Anowor, Oluchukwu F.; Ichoku, Hyacinth E.; Onodugo, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-14
The performances of African countries particularly in West African Sub- region on global-human development indices had been abysmal over the years and have worsened in the face of COVID-19 pandemic. This is a source of concern to scholars. Expenditure on health and education are recognized by...
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Inquiry on the Global (Post) Crisis Versus Humankind Wisdom as a Turning Point : Does the Generosity-Creativity-Solidarity Triad Matter?
Bulz, Nicolae; Stapleton, Larry; Lewoc, Jozef B.; … - 2013
The humankind wisdom is supposed to be a related and open-deeper turning point. An equivalent type of statement may be referred to generosity, creativity, solidarity. Homo Sapiens, as a species, is distinguished clearly from other species by their socio-cultural nature, drawing on a deep inner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160931
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Health Care Expenditures in OECD Countries : A Panel Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2005
This paper investigates the link between health care expenditures and GDP for a sample of 21 OECD countries using recent developed panel cointegration techniques. In contrast to previous studies, the analysis accounts for the fact that health care expenditures are not only determined by income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262194
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Growth and enduring epidemic diseases
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2006
This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...
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