This empirical study examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the relationship between FDI and environmental quality for six leading African economies from 1970 to 2020. The second-generation tests are used to determine the stationarity level of the variables....

Like most of International Institutions, the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) considers universal access to finance as key to empowering disadvantaged people. Fitting into that context, this study aims to assess the accelerating role of digital technologies using mobile phone...

Studies on the tripartite nexuses among information and communication technology (ICT), financial development (FD), and banking sector efficiency have largely produced mixed findings. More importantly, how countries' levels of ICT advancement moderate FD-banks efficiency interlinkages need to be...

This study investigates the effect of information and communication technology (ICT) on environmental sustainability in 38 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over a period 2000-2016. ICT is measured by internet penetration and mobile phone penetration whereas environmental sustainability is...

This research aims to consider determinants of economic growth, such as financial development, institutional quality, and information and communication technology (ICT) penetration, which have been explored separately in previous studies and have produced mixed findings in different regions....

The experience of past financial market turmoil suggests that in addition to eroding investor wealth, the severe consequences of rare extreme market events can spillover and impair the broader real economies. In this context, this paper is an evaluation of the methodological and empirical...