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This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic … participation, female unemployment and female employment rates. The engaged ICT variables are: fixed broadband subscriptions, mobile …
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This study investigates how ICT affects gender economic inclusion via gender parity education channels. We examine the … issue using data from 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004-2018 divided into: (i) 42 countries for the … the first sample, an extended analysis is used to establish thresholds of ICT penetration that nullify the established net …
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The study investigates the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of …, financial access is measured with deposit and credit channels while ICT is proxied by mobile phone penetration, internet … empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Policy thresholds are established at which, ICT modulates …
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The study assesses how ICT modulates the effect of inequality on female economic participation in a panel of 42 … countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 2004-2014. Three inequality indicators are used, namely: the Gini coefficient …, the Atkinson index and the Palma ratio. The adopted ICT indicators are mobile phone penetration, internet penetration and …
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This study complements existing literature by investigating how the advancement in information and communication technology affects the formal economic participation of women. The focus is on 48 African countries for the period 1990-2014. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least...
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in 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The question it aims to answer is the following: what is …- Saharan Africa when initial levels of inclusive human development are taken into account? The empirical evidence is based on …
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This study examines if enhancing ICT reduces inequality in 48 countries in Africa for the period 2004-2014. Three … inequality indictors are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index and Palma ratio. The adopted ICT indicators include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896792
, this study empirically assesses the effects of formal institutions on ICT adoption in developing countries. It deploys 2SLS … and FE regression models, (a) to estimate what determines ICT adoption and (b) to trace how ICT adoption affects inclusive … development. The results show that formal institutions affect ICT adoption in this group of countries, with government …
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Inequality and gender economic exclusion are major policy concerns facing sub-Saharan Africa in the post-2015 … gender economic participation. The research focuses on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa using annual data spanning from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019791
This study empirically examines the effect of tourism and ICT on inclusive development. Inclusive development is … approached as human development adjusted for environmental sustainability; ICT is based on mobile phones subscription rate … regression. The results of the linear model show that, tourism enhances sustainable development and ICT has a negative …
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