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proposed in tackling the spirit of African poverty is a holistic commitment to fighting illicit capital flight based on …
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The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
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income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini … index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and the severity of … poverty is generated as the squared of the poverty gap index. An interactive quantile regression approach is used as an …
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has African poverty been a persistent phenomenon? Our study sheds light on this question by providing new evidence on long … level, rose significantly over time and were, in major parts of British Africa, considerably higher than real wages in Asian …
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Aiming at a better understanding of the extent to which Africa-focused research has helped develop context … with an African context. A systematic search resulted in 271 articles with African data and 139 Africa-focused articles … society outlets. An in-depth analysis of the 139 Africa-focused articles shows an important imbalance in terms of publication …
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traditional model of delivering education, which further deprives the poor in Africa. The traditional model of education denoted …
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Poverty in Africa is primarily rural concentrated, about 75% of the poor population live in rural areas and draws their … extreme poverty, with the Eastern and Southern Africa having the world’s highest concentrations of poor people. The renewed … productivity on poverty reduction in Africa using the dynamic panel data approach estimated using the System-GMM technique for the …
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This study assesses the incidence of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty levels in 50 African countries by employing the … PovcalNet computational tool for poverty monitoring. The empirical evidence is based on: (i) Pre Covid-19 macroeconomic … projections of October 2019 and revised macroeconomic projections of April 2020 and (ii) three poverty thresholds, notably, US$1 …
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climate change on achieving pro-poor economic growth in Africa. Predicated on poverty-inequality-climate analysis, the …Africa's pursuit of inclusive and sustainable economic growth is impeded by many challenges, including climate change …
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