Search Results - subject:"Inclusive Development"

Sustainable and inclusive development in left-behind places

Benner, Maximilian; Trippl, Michaela; Hassink, Robert - In: Review of Regional Research 44 (2024) 3, pp. 237-249

Scholarly work in economic geography and regional science has recently seen a renewed interest in spatial inequalities, driven significantly by the debate on left-behind places and the resulting geographies of discontent. The plight of left-behind places calls for new place-based policy...

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Fighting female unemployment : the role of female ownership of bank accounts in complementing female inclusive education

Asongu, Simplice - 2024

The purpose of the study is to assess if a policy of female inclusive education should be complemented with a policy of female ownership of bank accounts to fight female unemployment. The study therefore examines how female ownership of bank accounts moderates the incidence of female education...

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Beyond divest vs. engage : a review of the role of institutional investors in an inclusive fossil fuel phase-out

McDonnell, Clara; Gupta, Joyeeta - In: Climate policy 24 (2024) 3, pp. 314-331

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Financial technologies for all MENA citizens : tackling barriers and promoting inclusion

Elouaourti, Zakaria; Ibourk, Aomar - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 6, pp. 1-10

investigates how FinTech can serve as a catalyst for inclusive development, with a specific focus on marginalized groups like women …

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What factors are limiting financial inclusion and development in Peru? : empirical evidence

Náñez Alonso, Sergio Luis; Jorge-Vazquez, Javier; … - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 4, pp. 1-22

Despite recent efforts in Peru to boost financial inclusion, significant issues of exclusion persist, especially among vulnerable groups. This article aims to identify and analyze areas at risk of financial exclusion using a multifaceted methodology: the Financial Access Survey (FAS) for...

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Not all that glitters is gold : financial access, microfinance and female unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Zogo, Therese E.; Mete, Mariette C. N.; … - 2024

The present study assesses the relevance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the effect of financial access on gender economic inclusion in 44 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period 2004 to 2018. The adopted empirical strategy is interactive quantile regressions that are...

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Drivers of inclusive development : an empirical investigation

Dörffel, Christoph; Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; … - In: The European journal of development research 36 (2024) 4, pp. 987-1015

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Drivers of Inclusive Development: An Empirical Investigation

Morosoli, Christoph; Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; … - In: The European Journal of Development Research 36 (2024) 4, pp. 987-1015

development. This paper is a first attempt to empirically estimate the drivers of inclusive development. For our empirical … that rudiments of the Washington consensus could still guide the promotion of inclusive development. … politicians). The purpose of this paper is to identify the economic policies as well as economic factors that facilitate inclusive …

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Microfinance institutions and female entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: avoidable female unemployment thresholds

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023

The present study contributes to the extant literature by assessing how microfinance institutions (MFIs) affect female entrepreneurship, contingent on female unemployment levels. The study focuses on 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period 2004 to 2018. The empirical evidence is...

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Female unemployment and the procedure that a woman has to go through to start a business: microfinance policy thresholds

Asongu, Simplice - 2023

This study examines how the starting of business by females can be promoted by assessing critical levels of microfinance institutions (MFIs) penetration that policy makers must endeavour to maintain and/or attain in order for female unemployment not to represent a constraint in the doing of...

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