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This study investigates the role of insurance in economic growth on a panel of forty-eight countries in Africa for the … period 2004-2014. The research question the study seeks to answer is the following: what thresholds of insurance penetration … positively affect economic growth in Africa? The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Life insurance …
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-crisis period. Fourth, the net effect from the: pre-crisis period is lower on money supply and banking system efficiency; post …
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In this study, we assess the relevance of decreasing information asymmetry on life and nonlife insurance consumption … Generalised Method of Moments. The findings show that information sharing offices increase insurance consumption with a … comparatively higher magnitude in life insurance penetration, relative to non-life insurance penetration. Practical and theoretical …
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Purpose -This study investigates the role of ICT in modulating the effect of governance on insurance penetration in 42 … sub-Saharan African countries using data for the period 2004- 2014. Design/methodology/approach -Two insurance indicators … are used in the analysis, namely: life insurance and non-life insurance. The three ICT modulating dynamics employed …
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Purpose - This study investigates the role of financial access in moderating the effect of governance on insurance … insurance indicators are used, notably: life insurance and non-life insurance. Six governance measurements are also used, namely … established from the GMM. First, financial access promotes life insurance through channels of political stability, "voice …
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education on life insurance and non-life insurance consumption in 48 African countries for the period 2004-2014. Education is … established. First, from the nexuses between education, ICT and life insurance, there are positive conditional effects from the …-life insurance: (i) there is a negative net effect from the interactions between mobile phone penetration and primary education while …
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In this study, we examine how insurance affects income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa, using data from 42 countries … Palma ratio. Two insurance premiums are employed, namely: life insurance and non-life insurance. The empirical evidence is … based on the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). Life insurance increases the Gini coefficient and increasing life …
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This study investigates the effect information sharing has on financial sector development in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. Information sharing is measured with private credit bureaus and public credit registries. Hitherto unexplored dimensions of financial sector development...
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The present inquiry contributes to extant literature by simultaneously accounting for variations in financial development and financial globalisation in the assessment of hypothetical initial financial development conditions for the rewards of financial globalisation. The policy relevance for...
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supply to liquid liabilities. This equation has put on the margin (and skewed) burgeoning phenomena of mobile banking …
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