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The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using … of risk. Social security has an effect on a number of different areas, including health, education, housing, and income … suffering from heavy health expenditures. …
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education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material … to the OECD average but contributed to large increases in income inequality and poverty that have only been partially …. Māori, Pasifika and low-income households have also experienced slower rates of improvement in many health and education …
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We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in ….646 and 0.761. Second, the increased use of mobile phones to send/receive money is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in …
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between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …/receive money is negatively associated with poverty in Asia and Pacific (AP) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Originality …
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This study assesses human development thresholds at which mobile banking mitigates poverty and inequality in 93 … used to receive/send money’ have an appealing role in promoting inclusive development in all poverty distributions, with ….705 in inequality and poverty specifications, respectively. The relevance of the findings is discussed in light of the …
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Poverty and inequality represent major policy syndromes that are relevant in the achievement of most United Nations … attendant SDGs. The present study extends existing literature by assessing the conditional influence of poverty, income … inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with data from 1980 to …
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comprising of in- come inequality, education, and health outcomes affect poverty reduction. The study uses a panel dataset of the …-GMM). The results show that GDP per capita exerts significant negative effect on poverty while inequality, education and health … outcomes do not show significant effect on poverty. Although, the estimates of inequality, health and education outcomes are …
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policy debate from growth to 'quality of growth' (QG). The April 2015 World Bank publication on MDGs extreme poverty targets … has revealed that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA … the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG …
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the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … of the 33 countries in the Hopefuls category are in SSA. Second, the effect of health is decreasingly positive from … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …
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The present study investigates the nexus between health performance dynamics and economic growth in 43 countries in sub …-Saharan Africa for the period 2004-2018. Four health performance dynamics are used, notably: total life expectancy, male life … discussed. The study complements the literature on the nexus between health performance and economic growth by assessing the …
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