Empirical and theoretical studies suggest that access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) goes beyond supporting development objectives and plays a significant role in enhancing subjective well-being. However, the existing literature has largely concentrated on d...
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This research establishes a dynamic model of collective intergenerational welfare within an overlapping generations (OLG) framework, primarily aimed at reconciling poverty alleviation with economic growth. We construct a collective welfare function to serve as a measure for pover...
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This study investigates the impact of household electricity access on combined well-being in the Democratic Republic of Congo using the 2018 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), which include a multidimensional household well-being index capturing education, health, life sa...
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This paper investigates the effect of adopting information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the perception of happiness in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), drawing on a dataset spanning the years 1993–2023. The choice of this timeframe is strictly guided by the ava...
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This study examines the effect of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) on women's subjective perception of happiness in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) based on the 2018 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS-Palu). The choice of this period is bas...
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This study examines the relationship between electricity access and happiness in African Great Lakes Countries (GLCs using panel data from 2012 to 2021. Employing the Cantril ladder score as a measure of subjective well-being, the analysis investigates how electrification influen...
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