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This study examines linkages between inequality, information and communication technology (ICT) and inclusive education … in order to establish inequality thresholds that should not be exceeded in order for ICT to promote inclusive education … order for ICT to promote inclusive education in sampled countries. Other implications in the light of Sustainable …
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technology affects the formal economic participation of women. The focus is on 48 African countries for the period 1990-2014. The … results show that improving communication technology increases female economic participation with the following consistent …
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This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic … participation, female unemployment and female employment rates. The engaged ICT variables are: fixed broadband subscriptions, mobile …
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This study examines linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) dynamics, inequality and poverty in … promote gender inclusive education in 57 developing countries for the period 2012-2016. Poverty is measured with the poverty … personal computers to increase inclusive education, the Gini coefficient, Palma ratio and poverty headcount (% of the …
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This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … interact with primary school education to decrease income inequality. Second, all ICT indicators interact with secondary school … education and lifelong learning to have a positive effect on economic growth. Fourth, ICT indicators do not significantly …
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and communication technology (ICT) matter to promote environmental sustainability in the Eastern and Southern Africa. The … causality approach. Our findings show the possibility of using education and clean technology investment in a complementary … study contributes to the existing empirical literature in several ways. It investigates whether education and information …
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The study investigates the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of …, financial access is measured with deposit and credit channels while ICT is proxied by mobile phone penetration, internet … empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Policy thresholds are established at which, ICT modulates …
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The study assesses how ICT modulates the effect of inequality on female economic participation in a panel of 42 …, the Atkinson index and the Palma ratio. The adopted ICT indicators are mobile phone penetration, internet penetration and … fixed broadband subscriptions. Three gender economic inclusion indicators are also used for the analysis, namely: female …
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This study investigates how ICT affects gender economic inclusion via gender parity education channels. We examine the … the first sample, an extended analysis is used to establish thresholds of ICT penetration that nullify the established net … negative effects. We found that in order to enhance female labor force participation, the following ICT thresholds are …
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