Showing 41 - 50 of 46,269
surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229835
The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in Tanzania which is measured on the basis of whether and how often respondents go, in the course of one year, without food, water, medical care, cooking fuel and cash income. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956959
This study assesses human development thresholds at which mobile banking mitigates poverty and inequality in 93 …" contribute to reducing inequality in countries at the bottom and top ends of the inequality distribution, while (ii) "mobiles ….705 in inequality and poverty specifications, respectively. The relevance of the findings is discussed in light of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956969
through education. The larger the income difference between the poor and the rich, the more individuals undergo education …, because individuals can become rich through education. Quality goods are first invented, and then produced by oligopolists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263108
It is well known that children growing up in poor families leave school with considerably lower qualifications than children from better off backgrounds. Using a simple decomposition analysis, we show that around two thirds of the socio-economic gap in attainment at age 16 can be accounted for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275764
inequality before as well as after taxes and transfers. Results show that increased in banking contributes to the upsurge in … income inequality in developing countries. These results were robust to spatial analysis for Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin … points to significantly reduce inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549305
The study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 Sub …. First, income inequality unconditionally reduces the involvement of women in business and politics. Second, mobile money … innovations interact with income inequality to have a positive impact on women in business and politics. Third, net effects from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549316
This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … as the mobile used to send money and the mobile used to pay bills online while income inequality is measured with the … are established. (i) Income inequality unconditionally reduces poverty and the severity of poverty though the significance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549370
The study examines how mobile money innovations transform unemployed women to self-employed women. The empirical evidence is based on interactive quantile regressions focusing on data in 44 countries from sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004 to 2018. The hypothesis that mobile money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549401
secondary level between 1988-2000, and confirms the inequality that exists in the access to education at post-primary level … among secondary school teachers also points toward inequality in the access to quality education that impairs the ability of …This paper explores the relationship between different levels of education and poverty through an analysis of household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208490