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Recent finance advances in information technology for inclusive development : a survey
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017
The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We survey about 180 recently published papers to provide recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638882
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Recent finance advances in information technology for inclusive development : a systematic review
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2018
The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We systematically review about 180 recently published papers to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998250
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Why Do French Civil-Law Countries Have Higher Levels of Financial Efficiency?
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
The dominance of English common-law countries in prospects for financial development in the legal-origins debate has been debunked by recent findings. Using exchange rate regimes and economic/monetary integration oriented hypotheses, this paper proposes an “inflation uncertainty theory” in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032601
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Inequality, Finance and Pro-Poor Investment in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2015
This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa. The empirical evidence is based on restricted and unrestricted Two-Stage Least Squares and a pre-crisis periodicity (1980-2002). Inequality is measured with estimated household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596325
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Globalization and Governance: A Critical Contribution to the Empirics
Asongu, Simplice; Efobi, Uchenna; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2016
This study assesses the effect of globalisation on governance in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Ten bundled and unbundled governance indicators and four globalisation variables are used. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596353
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Exploring Multidimensional Financial Inclusion and Manufacturing Firms Performance in a Developing Country: The Case of Nigeria
Efobi, Uchenna; Tanankem, Belmondo V.; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2016
This study used the matching technique to explore the impact of financial inclusion on the performance of manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Most studies that have considered financial inclusion have largely focused on household access to the services of financial institutions, but have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596379
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Doing business and inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
not attain the MDG extreme poverty target despite enjoying more than two decades of growth resurgence . (ii) Growth in … studies have shown that the increase in unemployment (resulting from the underlying demographic change) would be accommodated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112161
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Recent finance advances in information technology for inclusive development: A systematic review
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2018
The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We systematically review about 180 recently published papers to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112170
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Insurance policy thresholds for economic growth in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
This study investigates the role of insurance in economic growth on a panel of forty-eight countries in Africa for the … positively affect economic growth in Africa? The empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Life insurance … increases economic growth while the effect of non-life insurance is not significant. Increasing both life insurance and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112205
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Information technology, governance and insurance in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2019
Purpose - This study investigates the role of ICT in modulating the effect of governance on insurance penetration in 42 sub-Saharan African countries using data for the period 2004- 2014. Design/methodology/approach -Two insurance indicators are used in the analysis, namely: life insurance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112211