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channels through which structural change and inequality reinforce each other and show how they simultaneously emerge from …
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We study the impact of a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention on youth's financial literacy and financial behavior. To maximize the chances to reach out-of-school youth, we provided access to a user-friendly budget recording tool coupled with biweekly enumerators' visits and SMSs during a...
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inequality, stronger market power of firms or directed technical change. In turn, structural change can raise inequality. We … identify conditions under which a self-feeding circle between inequality and structural change with respect to finance emerges. …
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channels through which structural change and inequality reinforce each other and show how they simultaneously emerge from …
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This paper attempts to investigate the causal linkages between financial development, financial instability and poverty in Pakistan in the presence of structural changes. In addition to conventional finance growth relationship, this study presents empirical evidence whether credit expansion...
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countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of … inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage distribution. Taking the case of Poland …, rising inequality appears to be entirely accounted for by an increased incidence of workless households. This rise in …
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This study examines the role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on income inequality … financing constraints in order to ultimately reduce inequality. …
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This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …
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This paper examines the effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty. The results of both cross …-country and panel data regressions suggest that inequality and poverty are reduced not only through enhanced loan markets, but … robust determinants of both income inequality and poverty. Finally, we find evidence that government spending leads to a …
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The study has investigated the comparative importance of financial access in promoting gender inclusion in African countries. Gender inclusion is proxied by the female labour participation rate while financial channels include: financial system deposits and private domestic credit. The empirical...
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