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 …

-crisis period. Fourth, the net effect from the: pre-crisis period is lower on money supply and banking system efficiency; post …

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 …

supply to liquid liabilities. This equation has put on the margin (and skewed) burgeoning phenomena of mobile banking …

financial systems), efficiency (banking and financial systems), activity (banking and financial systems) and size, play out in …

financial systems), efficiency(banking and financial systems), activity (banking and financial systems) and size play-out in the …

. Practical implications - The presence of strong links among African banking sectors may present little opportunity for portfolio …