Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary … development and discuss possible channels of such causality. This relationship is robust to alternative model and to controlling …

, business/bank, market-related, knowledge economy, external flows and human development. The empirical evidence is based on … development, especially in the contemporary specifications. Fourth, mobile banking is positively linked with: (i) trade in …) internet penetration and human development, with contemporary threshold evidence. The policy implications are articulated with …

One of the key economic development challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is its low agricultural productivity … development, credit, institutional, and trade and price stabilization policies. We use the system two-step Generalized Method of … Moments to examine whether official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture and rural development is helping to boost …

This study assesses how the mobile phone influences governance to improve information and communication technology (ICT … three main governance concepts are used, namely: (i) institutional (comprising the rule of law and corruption-control); (ii … quality and government effectiveness) governance. The following findings are established. First, there are positive net …

This study investigates the role of mobile phones in governance for doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from … the period 2000-2012 by employing the Generalised Method of Moments. Three broad concepts of governance are explored … interaction between mobile phones and governance dynamics. They are (1) reduced cost of business start-up procedure, the time to …

Despite the evolving literature on the development benefits of mobile phones, we still know very little about factors …, (v) external flows and (vi) human development. Results are presented in terms of threshold and non-threshold effects. The … former has three main implications. First, there are increasing positive benefits in regulation quality, human development …