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The role of mobile money adoption in moderating the influence of access to finance in firm performance
Njinyah, Sam Z.; Asongu, Simplice; Jones, Sally - 2022
Africa is becoming the fastest-growing continent despite significant challenges to accessing finance and the use of technology. This research aims to examine the direct effect of mobile money adoption on firm performance and its indirect effect by examining how it moderates the effect of access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013389108
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Inequality, finance and pro-poor investment in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2015
This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household income inequality whereas financial development is proxied with financial depth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417474
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Inclusive human development in pre-crisis times of globalisation-driven debts
Asongu, Simplice A.; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2014
inequality in OECD nations. We assess the effects of four debt dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312446
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Rational asymmetric development, Piketty and poverty in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
-Swan and Boyce-Fofack-Ndikumana. The central argument presented is that the inequality problem is at the heart of rational … asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality increases when the return on capital is … economy (or capitalism-fuelled illicit capital flight) is higher than the growth rate in African countries, inequality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548648
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The comparative inclusive human development of globalisation in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542429
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Rational asymmetric development, Piketty and the spirit of poverty in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
paradigms and underpinnings from Solow-Swan & Boyce-Fofack-Ndikumana. The central argument presented is that the inequality … problem is at the heart of rational asymmetric development between rich and poor countries. Piketty has shown that inequality … African countries, inequality in development increases and African may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408865
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Middle class in Africa : determinants and consequences
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A.; Kayembe, … - 2014
This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409206
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New financial development indicators : with a critical contribution to inequality empirics
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409823
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How do institutions matter in the income-equalizing effect of mobile phone penetration?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
The object of this paper is to complement theoretical 'mobile penetration' literature with empirical evidence in a dual manner: on the one hand, assess the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and; on the other hand, the instrumentality of good governance in this nexus. Main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409942
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The impact of mobile phone penetration on African inequality
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the ‘mobile phone’-inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409960