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Inequality thresholds, governance and gender economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
development agenda. The study provides critical masses of inequality that should not be exceeded if governance is to promote …. First, inequality (i.e. the Gini coefficient) levels that completely nullify the positive effect of governance on female … thresholds at which female unemployment can no longer be mitigated by governance channels include: 0.561 (for political stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019791
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Inequality and gender inclusion : minimum ICT policy thresholds for promoting female employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111583
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Female economic participation with information and communication technology (ICT) advancement : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Voufo, Belmondo Tanankem; … - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817127
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Mobile phone innovation and inclusive human development : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Boateng, Agyenim; Akamavi, Raphael - 2016
A recent World Bank report reveals that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as more than 45% of countries in the sub-region are off-track from achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523136
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Enhancing ICT for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongua, Simplice A.; Le Roux, Sara - 2016
This study assesses if increasing information and communication technology (ICT) enhances inclusive human development in a sample of 49 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence present in this study, is based on instrumental variable Tobit regressions, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523139
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Inequality and gender economic inclusion : the moderating role of financial access in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2019
This study assesses how financial access can be used to modulate the effect of income inequality on gender economic inclusion. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period 2004-2014 and the empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) and Fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150322
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Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017
The study investigates critical masses or thresholds of educational quality at which the diffusion of information with mobile phones enhances inclusive human development. The empirical evidence is based on simultaneity-robust Fixed Effects regressions with data from 49 Sub-Saharan African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794979
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Governance, inequality and inclusive education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Diop, Samba; Addis, Amsalu K. - 2020
The study provides thresholds of income inequality that if exceeded will nullify the positive effect of governance … governance dynamics on inclusive education are consistently positive whereas the corresponding conditional effects from the … interaction between inequality and governance dynamics are consistently negative. Second, the levels of inequality that completely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314777
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Boosting quality education with inclusive human development : empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
This study examines the importance of inclusive human development in promoting education quality in a panel of forty-nine Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Fixed Effects (FE) and Quantile Regression (QR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997609
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Inequality and Gender Inclusion : Minimum ICT Policy Thresholds for Promoting Female Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847196