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The role of mobile money adoption in moderating the influence of access to finance in firm performance
Njinyah, Sam Z.; Asongu, Simplice; Jones, Sally - 2022
Africa is becoming the fastest-growing continent despite significant challenges to accessing finance and the use of technology. This research aims to examine the direct effect of mobile money adoption on firm performance and its indirect effect by examining how it moderates the effect of access...
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Remittances, finance and industrialisation in Africa
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; Okafor, … - 2019
The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation us ing a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998019
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Remittances, Finance and Industrialisation in Africa
Efobi, Uchenna - 2019
The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation using a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893397
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On the Substitution of Institutions and Finance in Investment
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence on policy and academic debates. This paper relaxes his hypotheses on the conception, definition and measurement of finance and institutions because they are less realistic to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032541
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Remittances, finance and industrialisation in Africa
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; Okafor, … - In: Journal of multinational financial management 49 (2019), pp. 54-66
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314386
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Exploring multidimensional financial inclusion and manufacturing firms performance in a developing country : the case of Nigeria
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Tanankem, Belmondo V.; … - 2016
firms in Nigeria. Most studies that have considered financial inclusion have largely focused on household access to the … services of financial institutions, but have inadvertently underexplored the impact on the performance of firms, especially in … includes (i) firms having between 20-40 percent of their working capital financed through borrowing from the bank; (ii) firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586922
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Exploring Multidimensional Financial Inclusion and Manufacturing Firms Performance in a Developing Country : The Case of Nigeria
Efobi, Uchenna - 2016
firms in Nigeria. Most studies that have considered financial inclusion have largely focused on household access to the … services of financial institutions, but have inadvertently under-explored the impact on the performance of firms, especially in … includes (i) firms having between 20-40 percent of their working capital financed through borrowing from the bank; (ii) firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979464
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Revisiting the Moderation Effect of Network on the Export Barrier –Export Performance in the Cameroon Context
Njinyah, Sam; Jones, Sally; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
The performance of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) is an important determinant of economic development, especially in developing countries like Cameroon. However, due to financial constraints, SMEs in Cameroon do face significant challenges to exporting, which affect their export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014237162
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Inequality thresholds, governance and gender economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: International review of applied economics 34 (2020) 1, pp. 94-114
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182372
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African Women Vulnerability index (AWVI) : focus on rural women
Tchamyou, Vanessa; Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2021
In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using the Round 7 Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799879