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Gender inclusive intermediary education, financial stability and female employment in the industry in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nounamo, Yann; Ndieupa, Henri Njangang; … - 2021
employment in the industry for the period 2008-2018 in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit, Ordinary … is apparent in the 10th quantitle (median) of female employment in the industry distribution. Implications are discussed. …
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Mobile money innovations and health performance in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Ngoungou, Yolande E.; Nnanna, Joseph - 2023
This study assesses nexuses between mobile money innovations and health performance in terms of total life expectancy in 43 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa employing data for the period 2004-2018. Four mobile money innovation dynamics are proxied with registered mobile money agents and active...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312002
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Female unemployment, mobile money innovations and doing business by females
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
The purpose of this study is to complement extant literature by examining how mobile money innovations can moderate the unfavorable incidence of female unemployment on female doing of business in 44 countries from sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004 to 2018. The empirical evidence is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280146
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The role of mobile money innovations in transforming unemployed women to self-employed women in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara - 2023
2004 to 2018. The hypothesis that mobile money innovations transform female unemployment to female self-employment is … apparent from interactions between female unemployment, eight mobile money innovation dynamics and female self-employment: (i …) the investigated hypothesis is valid exclusively at the top quantiles of female self-employment; (ii) the net effects are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265923
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The role of governance in the effect of the internet on financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
Akpa, Armand F.; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
Financial inclusion is a necessary condition for the population to get access to credit. Despite the efforts made by governments and policy makers, the rate of financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries remains low. The internet can be one of the options to increase the rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473204
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The role of mobile money innovations in the effect of inequality on poverty and severity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara - 2023
This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1980 to 2019. Mobile money innovations are understood as the mobile used to send money and the mobile used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335582
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Mobile money innovations, income inequality and gender inclusion in subSaharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Agyemang-Mintah, Peter; Nnanna, Joseph; … - 2023
The study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1980 to 2019 using interactive quantile regressions. The following findings are established. First, income inequality unconditionally reduces the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335597
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Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kouladoum, Jean-Claude; Wirajing, Muhamadu Awal Kindzeka; … - 2022
The study investigates the digital technology-financial inclusion nexus in 43 Sub-Saharan African countries between 2004 and 2019. The methodologies are the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) to take care of double causality and country heterogeneity and IV-Tobit to take into account the limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206510
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Fintechs and the financial inclusion gender gap in Sub-Saharan African countries
Yeyouomo, Aurelien Kamden; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022
This study addresses the issue of financial innovation in developing countries, focusing specifically on the role fintechs have in closing the gender gap of financial inclusion in SubSaharan Africa (SSA) over the period 2011-2017. The empirical evidence is based on the multilevel tobit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419097
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Economic sectors and globalization channels to gender economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
globalization positively affect female employment in agriculture and the positive effect of economic globalization is driven by the … trade globalization dynamic while social globalization negatively affects female employment in agriculture and the negative … gender employment in the industry and the negative effect is driven by the financial globalization sub-component of economic …
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