technology affects the formal economic participation of women. The focus is on 48 African countries for the period 1990-2014. The … results show that improving communication technology increases female economic participation with the following consistent …

This study investigates how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects female economic … participation, female unemployment and female employment rates. The engaged ICT variables are: fixed broadband subscriptions, mobile …

This study assesses the role of ICT in complementing private credit bureaus (PCB) and public credit registries (PCR) in … marginal effects from interactions between ICT and PCR (PCB) are consistently positive (negative); (ii) net effects from … financial deposits. Overall, the complementarity between information offices and ICT in boosting financial access is still very …

This study investigates loan price and quantity effects of information sharing offices with ICT, in a panel of 162 … Moments and Instrumental Quantile Regressions. Our findings broadly show that ICT with public credit registries decrease the … price of loans and increase the quantity of loans. While the net effects from the interaction of ICT with private credit …

This study assesses if increasing information and communication technology (ICT) enhances inclusive human development … designed to boost ICT (mobile phone, internet, telephone) penetration will increase inclusive development in the post-2015 … sustainable development agenda. The degree of positive responsiveness of inclusive development to ICT varies across fundamental …

This paper examines the short and long term effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on inclusive … human development in a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. ICT is measured in terms of …

This paper empirically investigates the role of mobile technology adoption on inclusive growth in 15 West African … countries with a view to ascertaining if the positive role of mobile technology adoption on human development as established in … technology adoption on inclusive growth. The possible reasons for the results and recommendations are documented in the study. …