inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with data from 1980 to … quantile regressions in order to assess how income inequality and poverty dynamics affect economic growth throughout the … economic growth and (ii) comparative incidences of poverty and inequality in affecting economic growth. …

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. …

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 …

This paper examines how domestic, foreign, private and public investments affect income-inequality through financial … the poor as they diminish estimated household income-inequality. Financial size does not have a significant income … in the literature provide new insights into the finance-inequality nexus. Policy implications are discussed. …

Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … poverty should take account of the disequalizing income-effect of foreign investment in undeveloped countries. …

which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …) political liberalization has a disequalizing effect and; (3) economic freedom has a positive (negative) effect on inequality …

In the first empirical study on how financial reforms have been instrumental in mitigating inequality through financial …: (1) while formal financial development decreases inequality, financial sector formalization increases it; (2) whereas … semi-formal financial development increases inequality, the effect of financial semi-formalization is unclear; (3) both …

'-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value - It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic … survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the 'mobile phone'-inequality …

-specific and microeconomic survey-based approaches is on 52 African countries. 'Mobile phone'-oriented poverty reduction channels …

other financial sectors has a disequalizing income effect. (2) Growth of informal and semi-formal financial sectors at the …