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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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This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … are established. (i) Income inequality unconditionally reduces poverty and the severity of poverty though the significance … significantly moderate the positive incidence of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in some quantiles. (iii …
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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 …
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This study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 sub …-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019 using interactive quantile regressions. It fnds that, frst, income inequality … inequality to have a positive impact on women in business and politics. Third, the net efects of mobile money innovations on …
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The study assesses the role of financial development on income inequality in a panel of 48 African countries for the …, three indicators of inequality are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index and Palma ratio. The empirical … hypothesis: a humped shaped nexus between increasing GDP per capita and inequality. Policy implications are discussed. …
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This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …
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The study has investigated the comparative importance of financial access in promoting gender inclusion in African countries. Gender inclusion is proxied by the female labour participation rate while financial channels include: financial system deposits and private domestic credit. The empirical...
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This study provides thresholds of inequality that should not be exceeded if gender inclusive education is to enhance … gender inclusive formal economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised … and inequality is unfavourable to gender economic inclusion. Second, a Gini coefficient that nullifies the positive …
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This study examines the role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on income inequality … financing constraints in order to ultimately reduce inequality. …
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