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This study investigates the impact of energy consumption on poverty reduction in a panel of 12 African countries over a … relationship exists between energy consumption and poverty level, which underscores the importance of energy in poverty reduction … stability have significant effect on poverty implying that these factors play critical role in reducing poverty. Furthermore …
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The study assesses the role of financial development on income inequality in a panel of 48 African countries for the period 1996 to 2014. Financial development is defined in terms of depth (money supply and liquid liabilities), efficiency (from banking and financial system perspectives),...
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) on poverty in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). In achieving this, a balanced panel of 30 SSA countries from 1996 to 2018 was … incidence and intensity of poverty. (2) the impact of FDI is contingent on the absorptive capacity of the host country. The … study further reveals that FDI will alleviate poverty conditions if interacted with human capital and institutional quality …
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than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs … countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which … is larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 9 …
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available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of … moving up - looms large in the economic lives of both the poor and the non-poor in South Africa. We use all five waves of …
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West Africa and its implications on Brazil’s development and drug trafficking value chain. After establishing milestones of … between Latin American criminal actors and high level elites in West Africa. The second part of the article focuses on the … drug traffickers, namely their strategies and use of violence by analyzing the development of maritime trade and the …
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