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Determinants of mobile broadband use in developing economies : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Hasbi, Maude; Dubus, Antoine - 2019
Broadband is seen as a vector of economic growth and social development. In the developing world, mobile technologies are widely adopted and mobile broadband is progressively rolled-out with high expectations on its impact on the countries' development. We highlight what the determinants of...
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Heterogeneous effects of women's schooling on fertility, literacy and work : evidence from Burundi's free primary education policy
Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - 2020
This article investigates women's returns to schooling by exploiting Burundi's free primary education policy (FPE) of 2005 as a natural experiment. Credibly exogenous variation in education is identified through a fuzzy regression discontinuity design (RDD). Our results show that while...
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Ethnic inequality and anti-authoritarianism in sub-Saharan Africa
Nchare, Karim; Ogeny, Moses - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 1, pp. 51-69
Is ethnic inequality associated with aversion to authoritarian regimes and increase support for democracy as a means of influencing redistribution? Using four rounds of Afrobarometer panel data, covering 29 African countries and 353 distinct ethnic groups, and an ordered logistic model, we show...
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[Predicting GDP of 289 NUTS regions in Europe with 'subjective' indicators for human and social capital]
Weckroth, Mikko; Kemppainen, Teemu; Sørensen, Jens … - 2015
limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the … human capital and thereby be are associated with the regional level GDP in cross-sectional analysis. The focus of this study … 'social contact and support` appears to have positive and significant correlation with the regional GDP. On the subjective …
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Economic crisis and regional disparities
Gaki, Eleni; Angelis, Vasilis A.; Dimaki, Katerina; … - 2012
, such as GDP per capita, employment/unemployment rates, household savings and use them to compare the regional disparities …
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The analysis of the main indicators evolution of social and economic development in the Arab republic of Syria, period 1960-2014
Al Mahammad, Jaghayef; Necula, Raluca; Necula, Diana - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 47-55). 2016
The paper's aim is a retrospective analysis of the evolution of the main indicators of social and economic development from Syria by highlighting the degree of development of the country before the policy crisis in 2011. An attempt was also the surprise of external and internal influences in the...
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The role of the research and development and the number of patents, in the increase of GDP performance in the European Union for the period 2005-2014
Necula, Raluca; Stoian, Mirela; Drăghici, Manea; … - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 381-387). 2016
Over time, the research has played a key role in the economic development reflected by the GDP growth, the increase of …
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Country benchmarking for setting up a new business
Avram, Bianca; Brad, Stelian - In: Development, Growth and Finance of Organizations from …, (pp. 1-14). 2017
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An evaluation of the share of Turkish central government expenditures within GDP between 1924 and 2016 in the background of the concept of "minimal state"
Özel Özer, Aslıhan; Özer, Buǧra; Mastar Özcan, Pelin - In: Current perspectives in public finance, (pp. 119-139). 2018
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Peruvian regional inequality : 1847-2017
Seminario, Bruno; Zegarra, María Alejandra; Palomino, Luis - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 241-269). 2020
This chapter describes the evolution of regional inequality in Peru between the years 1847 and 2017 using the latest available statistics on the spatial distribution of population and economic activity. The main results observed were the transformation of the economic space of this country....
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