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 …

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 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 …

and communication technology (ICT) matter to promote environmental sustainability in the Eastern and Southern Africa. The … causality approach. Our findings show the possibility of using education and clean technology investment in a complementary …

ICTs affect the agricultural sector. We use a stochastic impact model extended to the population, affluence and technology … empirical results show that ICT use measured by Internet, mobile and fixed-line telephone penetration boosts the agricultural …

The study examines the effectiveness of financial development, financial access, and ICT diffusion in reducing the …, ICT usage, and ICT access, ICT skills is remarkable in reducing both the severity and intensity of poverty. The results … further unveil that, though ICT skills reduce the intensity and severity of poverty in SSA, the effect is more pronounced in …

The objectives of this paper are to investigate the effect of ICT on sustainable development and the mechanisms through … dependent variable. The results show that ICT has a positive and significant effect on sustainable development. Whereas overall … net effects are positive, the findings are contingent on the choice of the ICT measurement, the geographical location of …