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Financial institutions, poverty and severity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Soumtang, Valentine B.; Edoh, Ofeh M. - 2021

The study assesses how financial institution dynamics have affected poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1980-2019. In order to increase for policy relevance of the study, three financial development indicators are used, namely: financial...

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An Empirical Study of the Effects of Demographic Factors on Economic Growth in Advanced and Developing Countries

Kozlovskyi, Serhii; Pasichnyi, Mykola; Lavrov, Ruslan; … - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 45-67

In this article, an updated approach to investigate the effects of demographic fac- tors on economic growth is proposed. The initial hypothesis was that these factors significantly affected production proportions, determining development vectors. The predictable shifts in production dynamics are...

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Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980

Moradi, Alexander; Austin, Gareth; Baten, Jörg - 2013

While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agricultural-export colony, scholars have queried whether it was sustained, and how far its benefits were widely distributed, socially and regionally. Using height as a measure of human well-being we explore the evolution of living standards...

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Inequality and poverty in a developing economy: Evidence from regional data (Spain, 1860-1930)

Tapia, Francisco J. Beltran; Martinez-Galarrage, Julio - 2015

Apart from measuring inequality and poverty at the provincial level in Spain between 1860 and 1930, this paper empirically assesses the relationship between economic growth and both inequality and destitution. The results, on the one hand, confirm the presence of a Kuznets' curve. However,...

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Effects of taxation on social innovation and implications for achieving Sustainable Development Goals in developing countries: A literature review

Kouam, Jean C.; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

environments that encourage savings, investment, entrepreneurship, and social innovation. This study provides an overview of … research on the effects of taxation on social innovation and the corresponding implications for the achievement of Sustainable … studies agree that high taxes in business undermine social innovation and thus the achievement of SDGs, as social innovation …

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Is There An Income-Happiness Puzzle in China? A National Survey, 2003-2021

Yang, Jinyang - 2023

This study investigates the income-happiness puzzle in China by examining the trends in happiness and economic growth over the past two decades. It is the first long-term study in China to utilize a consistent national representative survey in the new century. Using data from the Chinese General...

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Poverty in China seen from outer space

Almås, Ingvild; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd; Kotsadam, … - 2014

Estimates of poverty are highly sensitive to price and income measures across time and space. This paper offers a complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty measurement. We measure the percentage of...

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Who got what, then and now? A fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project

Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2015

Using newly comprehensive data and tools from the Global Consumption and Income Project or CGIP, covering most of the world and five decades, we present a portrait of the changing global distribution of consumption and income and discuss its implications for our understanding of inequality,...

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Who is Reaping the Gains from Globalisation? – The Role of Labour Market Flexibility

Seidel, Tobias - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 54-59

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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An Overview

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2016

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...

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