Closing the vicious poverty gap: the role of digital technology and financial progress in mitigating income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
Closing the vicious poverty gap: the role of digital technology and financial progress in mitigating income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
Zaiyang Li,Hassan Swedy Lunku,Shaohua Yang,J. Ngoma
2025 · DOI: 10.1007/s42495-025-00153-7
International Journal of Economic Policy Studies · 5 Citations
TLDR
Analysis of the dynamics of the sub-Saharan Africa region income inequality provides a picture of disparate effects underlying the finance and digital development in the region on different tails of inequality, indicating digitalization significantly impacts income inequality with financial developments in terms of access, efficiency, and depth of financial institutions and markets to different quantiles.