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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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This paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico's Oportunidades programme. The switch from cash payments to electronic payments delivered via a bank account is found to have implications in terms of reallocation between...
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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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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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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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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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-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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that Kenya, as the ninth largest economy in Africa and the fourth largest in sub-Saharan Africa and with a locational …This paper mainly analyses the drivers of economic growth in Kenya and the linkages to the labour market dynamics, with …
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inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely … statistics with those produced by ACEIR in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. The underlying country-specific income and expenditure … high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one coherent story about African inequality, however, is difficult. The construction …
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