enterprise growth in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), to identify the research gaps they provide, and to prepare an agenda for future …

This study uses machine learning techniques to identify the key drivers of financial development in Africa. To this end … literacy are crucial for financial sector development in Africa. Evidence from the Partialing-out lasso instrumental variable … institutional effectiveness are remarkable in spurring financial sector development in Africa. Policy recommendations are provided …

includes (i) firms having between 20-40 percent of their working capital financed through borrowing from the bank; (ii) firms … unit. From the matching estimation, we find that whereas firms perform better with the aid of access to bank services, the …

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 hand and on the other, that bank concentration which is a proxy …

in 43 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa employing data for the period 2004-2018. Four mobile money innovation dynamics are …