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How individual’s characteristics influence financial inclusion: evidence from MENAP
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Purpose
This study aims to analyze the financial inclusion of individuals living in the Middle East, North African, Afghanistan and Pakistan (MENAP). It intends to show the influence of these individuals’ characteristics on financial inclusion, using the World Bank Global Findex Database 2014 for 16 countries in the region.
Design/methodology/approach
A probit model is used to examine the marginal effect of financial inclusion of the characteristics of individuals living in the MENAP region. These characteristics include gender, age, income and education. Individual characteristics that are linked to the main financial-inclusion indicators include having a formal account and formal saving and borrowing. The barriers to having a formal account, alternative borrowing sources and motivations for borrowing are also linked to the respondents’ characteristics.
Findings
The results indicate that females and the poor are less likely to be included in financial systems, while education level enhances financial inclusion. As disadvantaged people consider access to credit is important to improving their lives, the study finds that the poor are more likely to borrow for medical issues than for other needs. While Islam is the majority religion in the MENAP region, it is not considered a barrier to having a formal bank account. Furthermore, people in different income quintiles are more likely to use informal financial sources, while the educated are more likely to use formal ones.
Practical implications
The results show that policymakers in MENAP should make more of an effort to enhance financial inclusion as a way to enhance economic development in the region. Also, governments institutions, such as central banks, financial ministries and other institutions, could build on these results to enhance financial inclusion as a way toward development in the MENAP region.
Originality/value
To the author’s best knowledge, this is the first study to examine the influence of individuals’ characteristics on financial inclusion in the MENAP region.
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Enerji-Büyüme Hipotezlerinin MENAP Ülkeleri için Test Edilmesi: Kısa ve Uzun Dönem Panel Granger Nedensellik Analizi
No full textBu çalışma MENAP ülkelerinde hangi enerji-büyüme hipotezinin geçerli olduğunun tespit edilmesini amaçlamaktadır. Toplam üretim fonksiyonunun izlendiği bu çalışma; ekonomik büyüme, enerji tüketimi, sermaye oluşumu, işgücü değişkenlerini ve 1994-2013 yıllarını kapsamaktadır. Çalışmada panel eşbütünleşme, panel Granger nedensellik ve vektör hata düzeltme modeli uygulanmıştır. Panel eşbütünleşme testi sonuçlarına göre ekonomik büyüme, enerji tüketimi, sermaye oluşumu, işgücü değişkenleri arasında uzun dönem dengesi vardır. Panel vektör hata düzeltme modelinden elde edilen sonuçlar kısa dönemde enerji tüketimi ve ekonomik büyüme arasında ilişkinin bulunmadığını, yani, MENAP ülkelerinde yansızlık hipotezinin geçerli olduğunu göstermektedir. Bu ülkelerde uygulanacak enerji tasarrufu politikaları ve enerji arzı şokları ekonomik büyüme üzerinde etki yapmamaktadır. Buradan hareketle, dünya petrol arzında önemli bir paya sahip MENAP ülkelerinde tek ürüne bağımlı olma sorununun bulunmadığı, bunda, ekonomik çeşitlendirme ve yenilenebilir enerji yatırımlarının etkili olduğu anlaşılmaktadır
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Health literacy among the new wave of migrants from the MENAP region in the metropolitan area of Lisbon
Get PDFABSTRACT - Health literacy refers to one’s abilities and resources required to access, understand, and use health information in managing health. Health literacy is a key determinant of health that can be modified to reduce health disparities and improve health equity, especially among vulnerable groups such as migrant communities due to the cumulative effects of other life conditions and existed factors. Research on health literacy in Portugal is still scarce, especially research on migrant’s health literacy. The aim of this study was to examine health literacy levels in a population of the new wave of migrants from the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP) region in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, and to explore the relationship between health literacy and socio-demographic characteristics of this population.
The study was of a quantitative nature with a descriptive cross-sectional and analytical design. Data were collected from 86 migrants from the MENAP region using the health literacy questionnaire through interviews and online platforms. Socio-demographic data were also collected. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Effect sizes (ES) for differences in means were calculated to determine the magnitude of differences between socio-demographic groups.
Higher mean scores were seen for the scales ‘Social support for health’ and ‘Understanding health information’, lower mean scores were seen for ‘Feeling understood and supported by healthcare providers’ and ‘Navigating the healthcare system’. Associations were seen between lower HLQ scores on various scales and socio-demographic characteristics such as shorter period of time in Portugal, household composition, lower Portuguese proficiency, and irregular migration status.
The study showed that migrants of the MENAP region have difficulties in navigating the Portuguese healthcare system, and in their relationships with healthcare providers. The study also showed that recent migrants, those who do not live with their close families, who are undocumented, and those with lower Portuguese proficiency have lower health literacy compered to their counterparts. These findings provide insight into the areas of health literacy weaknesses and difficulties of the MENAP region migrants in Lisbon and provide guidance for more equitable health interventions.RESUMO - A literacia em saúde refere-se às capacidades e recursos necessários para aceder, compreender e usar as informações de saúde na gestão da saúde. A literacia em saúde é um fator determinante da saúde que pode ser modificado para reduzir as disparidades e melhorar a equidade na saúde, especialmente entre grupos vulneráveis, onde se incluem migrantes devido aos efeitos cumulativos do processo migratório, das condições de vida e outros fatores existentes. A investigação sobre a literacia em saúde em Portugal ainda é escassa, especialmente sobre a literacia em saúde de populações migrantes. O objetivo deste estudo foi examinar os níveis de literacia em saúde de uma população de migrantes recentes da região do Médio Oriente, Norte da África, Afeganistão e Paquistão (MENAP) na área metropolitana de Lisboa, e explorar a relação entre literacia em saúde e as características sociodemográficas desta população.
Realizou-se um estudo quantitativo, transversal, descritivo e analítico. Os dados foram recolhidos de 86 migrantes da região MENAP através da aplicação do questionário de literacia em saúde por meio de entrevistas e plataformas online. Dados sociodemográficos também foram recolhidos. Os dados foram analisados por meio de estatística descritiva. Os tamanhos de efeito para diferenças nas médias foram calculados para determinar a magnitude das diferenças entre os grupos sociodemográficos.
Pontuações médias mais altas foram observadas para as escalas ‘Apoio social para a saúde’ e ‘Compreensão das informações de saúde’, pontuações médias mais baixas foram observadas para ‘Sentir-se compreendido e apoiado por profissionais de saúde’ e ‘Navegar no sistema de saúde’. Foram observadas associações entre pontuações mais baixas em várias escalas e características sociodemográficas, como menor tempo de residência em Portugal, composição familiar, menor proficiência em português e a situação irregular de migração.
O estudo mostrou que os migrantes da região MENAP têm dificuldade em navegar no sistema de saúde português e nas suas relações com os prestadores de cuidados de saúde. Verificou-se que migrantes recentes, aqueles que não vivem com as suas famílias próximas, migrantes sem situação regularizada e aqueles com menor proficiência em português têm menor nível de literacia em saúde. Estes resultados fornecem uma visão sobre os recursos, lacunas e dificuldades em literacia em saúde dos migrantes da região MENAP em Lisboa e fornecem orientação para intervenções em saúde mais equitativas
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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