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. First, income inequality unconditionally reduces the involvement of women in business and politics. Second, mobile money … innovations interact with income inequality to have a positive impact on women in business and politics. Third, net effects from …
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unfavorable incidence of female unemployment on female doing of business in 44 countries from sub-Saharan Africa for the period … are the procedures a woman has to go through to start a business and the time for women to set up a business, while the …
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The study examines how mobile money innovations transform unemployed women to self-employed women. The empirical … evidence is based on interactive quantile regressions focusing on data in 44 countries from sub-Saharan Africa for the period …
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This study assesses how knowledge diffusion modulates the effect of the mobile phone on entrepreneurship or doing … business in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments in which mobile phones are … of entrepreneurship are used. The following three main findings are established. First, the net effects from interacting …
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innovation in entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa. …This study assesses how knowledge diffusion modulates the effect of the mobile phone on entrepreneurship in Sub …-Saharan Africa with data for the period 2000-2012.The empirical evidence is based on interactive Generalised Method of Moments in …
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This study examines the effect of political implications of women on industrialisation in Africa. The results after … controlling for cross-sectional dependency show that women political implication Granger causes industrialisation in Africa …. Besides, the Fixed effect Driscoll/Kraay standard error estimator reveal that women political empowerment negatively affect …
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This study investigates the role of mobile phones in governance for doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from … dimensions of entrepreneurship are considered. Two main findings are established with respect to the net effects of the …
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Purpose - This study examines how doing business affects inclusive human development in 48 sub-Saharan Africa for the … reasons: (i) Exclusive development is a critical policy syndrome in Africa because about 50% of countries in the continent did … Africa is primarily driven by large extractive industries and with the population of the continent expected to double in …
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Purpose - The paper assesses how entrepreneurship affects knowledge economy (KE) in Africa. Design …/methodology/approach - Entrepreneurship is measured by indicators of starting, doing and ending business. The four dimensions of the World Bank's index of KE …-tech commodities in Africa, the continent has to start thinking of how to participate in the global value chain of producing what it …
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This paper forwards the view that some aspects of African culture enhance economic development on the continent while other aspects tend to constrain development. By drawing on the extant literature on culture and development, the paper discusses the manner in which economic activities are...
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