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Although Tanzania has made notable progress in enhancing access to financial services, the gender gap in financial inclusion persists. This paper examines gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania using descriptive and regression analyses. While the advent of mobile phone money...
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-enabled service in Kenya, having recorded an exponential growth relative to its neighbours within the East Africa region. This could … be attributed to Kenya's status as a leading commercial and logistics hub in the region, coupled with the competitive … maximize the economies of scale required for its success and expansion. This can be achieved if Kenya identifies its market …
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. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic consolidation? This paper uses the case of Kenya to …
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The financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed … addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the …
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The financial inclusion effort achieved positive results, with the number of Mozambicans having access to banking services increasing considerably, particularly after 2011- 12. However, the economic and social impact was limited, considering that farm productivity has remained low and poverty...
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Using a unique district-level panel data set, we investigate the effect of banking system penetration on financial inclusion in Ghana. To purge potential endogeneity bias in the underlying relationship, we exploit a change in the policy environment of the Ghanaian banking system to instrument...
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Using a nationally representative household survey data set from Ghana, this paper provides empirical evidence regarding the role of financial inclusion or financial exclusion in household welfare. We first compute a multidimensional index of financial inclusion, and then we examine the effect...
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This paper traces the development of fintech in sub-Saharan Africa, its evolution over time, and the unfolding benefits … and solutions in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper concludes that the fourth Industrial Revolution, driven by fintech, has the …
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the link between ethnic diversity and financial inclusion using five-wave panel data from South Africa, a country noted …
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We investigate if financial inclusion leads to improved nutrition in rural Rwanda, using Rwandan Integrated Household Living Conditions surveys (2013/14 and 2016/17). Our empirical evidence shows a robust positive impact of financial inclusion efforts undertaken by formal financial institutions,...
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