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Human development thresholds for inclusive mobile banking in developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation & … 10 (2018) 6, pp. 735-744

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The comparative exploration of mobile money services in inclusive development

Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - 2017

between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …/receive money is negatively associated with poverty in Asia and Pacific (AP) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Originality …

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Human development thresholds for inclusive mobile banking in developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018

This study assesses human development thresholds at which mobile banking mitigates poverty and inequality in 93 … used to receive/send money’ have an appealing role in promoting inclusive development in all poverty distributions, with ….705 in inequality and poverty specifications, respectively. The relevance of the findings is discussed in light of the …

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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 … Gini index. Poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio while the severity of poverty is generated as the squared of …

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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...

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Mobile money innovations, income inequality and gender inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Agyemang-Mintah, Peter; Nnanna, Joseph; … - In: Financial innovation : FIN 10 (2024), pp. 1-21

This study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019 using interactive quantile regressions. It fnds that, frst, income inequality unconditionally reduces the involvement of women in business and...

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The Impact of Mobile Phone Penetration on African Inequality

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

'-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value – It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic …

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The of role economic growth in modulating mobile connectivity dynamics for financial inclusion in developing countries

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2022

This study establishes economic growth needed for supply-side mobile money drivers in developing countries to be positively related to mobile money innovations in the perspectives of mobile money accounts, the mobile phone used to send money, and the mobile phone used to receive money. The...

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The Mobile Phone, Information Sharing and Financial Sector Development in Africa : A Quantile Regressions Approach

Asongu, Simplice - 2020

This study investigates linkages between the mobile phone, information sharing offices (ISO) and financial sector development in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. ISO are private credit bureaus and public credit registries. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary and...

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How Has Mobile Banking Stimulated Financial Development in Africa?

Asongu, Simplice - 2014

In the first empirical assessment of the incidence of mobile banking on financial intermediary development in Africa, we use two definitions of the financial system: the traditional IFS (2008) and Asongu (2011) measures of financial sector importance. When the conception of a financial system is...

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