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The comparative exploration of mobile money services in inclusive development
Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - 2017
between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …/receive money is negatively associated with poverty in Asia and Pacific (AP) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Originality …
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Mobile money innovations and health performance in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Ngoungou, Yolande E.; Nnanna, Joseph - 2023
This study assesses nexuses between mobile money innovations and health performance in terms of total life expectancy in 43 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa employing data for the period 2004-2018. Four mobile money innovation dynamics are proxied with registered mobile money agents and active...
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Mobile money innovations, income inequality and gender inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Agyemang-Mintah, Peter; Nnanna, Joseph; … - 2023
The study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1980 to 2019 using interactive quantile regressions. The following findings are established. First, income inequality unconditionally reduces the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549316
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Female unemployment, mobile money innovations and doing business by females
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
The purpose of this study is to complement extant literature by examining how mobile money innovations can moderate the unfavorable incidence of female unemployment on female doing of business in 44 countries from sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004 to 2018. The empirical evidence is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549378
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The role of mobile money innovations in transforming unemployed women to self-employed women in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara - 2023
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 2004 to 2018. The hypothesis that mobile money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549401
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The role of mobile money innovations in the effect of inequality on poverty and severity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara - 2023
This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1980 to 2019. Mobile money innovations are understood … Gini index. Poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio while the severity of poverty is generated as the squared of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549370
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The conditional influence of poverty, inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Eita, Joel Hinaunye - 2023
Poverty and inequality represent major policy syndromes that are relevant in the achievement of most United Nations … attendant SDGs. The present study extends existing literature by assessing the conditional influence of poverty, income … inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with data from 1980 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549258
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Catching the drivers of inclusive growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: An application of machine learning
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi - 2021
are key for driving inclusive growth in SSA. Further, the results show that out of the 13, the poverty headcount (US$1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653005
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Exploring Multidimensional Financial Inclusion and Manufacturing Firms Performance in a Developing Country: The Case of Nigeria
Efobi, Uchenna; Tanankem, Belmondo V.; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2016
This study used the matching technique to explore the impact of financial inclusion on the performance of manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Most studies that have considered financial inclusion have largely focused on household access to the services of financial institutions, but have...
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Bank accounts, bank concentration and mobile money innovations
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
The present study investigates how increasing bank accounts and bank concentration affect mobile money innovations in 148 countries. It builds on scholarly and policy concerns in the literature that increasing bank accounts may not be having the desired effects on financial inclusion on the one...
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