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Financial access, governance and insurance sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019

Purpose - This study investigates the role of financial access in moderating the effect of governance on insurance consumption in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries using data for the period 2004-2014. Design/methodology/approach - Two life insurance indicators are used, notably: life insurance...

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Financial access and value added in Sub-Saharan Africa : empirical evidence from the agricultural, manufacturing and service sectors

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2022

This research assesses the importance of financial access on value added in three economic sectors in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa using data for the period 1980-2014. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments. Financial access is measured with private domestic...

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Financial determinants of informal financial development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Soumtang, Valentine B.; Edoh, Ofeh M. - 2021

affect informal financial development and financial informalization differently in terms of magnitude and sign: bank overhead … costs; net internet margin; bank concentration; return on equity; bank cost to income ratio; financial stability; loans from … non-resident banks; offshore bank deposits and remittances. The determinants are presented from a plethora of perspectives …

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Financial access and productivity dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether enhancing financial access influences productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The research focuses on 25 countries in the region with data for the period 1980-2014. The adopted empirical strategy is the Generalised Method of Moments. The credit...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060720

Size, efficiency, market power, and economies of scale in the African banking sector

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018

, more efficient, and unchallenged. In contra st, several studies found that when bank size increases beyond certain … interest margins. This study examines the connection between bank size and efficiency to understand whether that relationship …-overlapping thresholds for bank size. We found two key results. First, bank size increases bank interest rate margins with an inverted U …

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ICT, conflicts in financial intermediation and financial access : evidence of synergy and threshold effects

Asongu, Simplice; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2017

In this study we investigate the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in conflicts of financial intermediation for financial access. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary (or current values) and non-contemporary (or lagged by a year) quantile regressions in 53 African...

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The determinants of interest rates in microfinance : age, scale and organisational charter

Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Aziz, Aqsa; Tony-Okeke, Uchenna; … - 2018

This study compares the responsiveness of microcredit interest rates to age, scale of lending and organisational charter. It uses an unbalanced panel of 300 MFIs from 107 developing countries from 2005 to 2015. Three key trends emerge from the results of a 2SLS regression. First, the adoption of...

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African financial development dynamics : big time convergence

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

Purpose - Assessment of African financial development dynamic convergences in money, credit, efficiency and size. Design/Methodology - The empirical evidence is premised on 11 homogenous panels based on regions (Sub-Saharan and North Africa), income-levels (low, middle, lower-middle and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410269

Dollarization and the "unbundling" of globalization in sub-Saharan Africa

Ajide, Kazeem Bello; Raheem, Ibrahim D.; Asongu, Simplice - 2018

This study contributes to the dollarization literature by expanding its determinants to account for different dimensions of globalization, using the widely employed KOF index of globalization. Specifically, globalization is "unbundled" into three different layers namely : economic, social and...

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Youth empowerment in non-timber forest products (NTFPs) of sub-Saharan Africa : the role of corporate social responsibility in Niger Delta, Nigeria

Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the multinational oil companies' (MOCs) corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of General Memorandum of Understanding (GMoUs) on rural young people involved in...

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