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The effects of remittances on output per worker in Sub-Saharan Africa : a production function approach

Ssozi, John; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …

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Mobile banking and mobile phone penetration : which is more pro-poor in Africa?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013

The contribution of this paper to complement theoretical and qualitative mobile penetration literature with empirical evidence is twofold: firstly, we assess the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and; secondly, the instrumentality of financial development dynamics in this...

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How has mobile banking stimulated financial development in Africa?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

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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How has mobile phone penetration stimulated financial development in Africa?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

In the first macroeconomic empirical assessment of the relationship between mobile phones and finance, this paper examines the correlations between mobile phone penetration and financial development using two conflicting definitions of the financial system in the financial development...

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How has mobile phone penetration stimulated financial development in Africa?

Asongu, Simplice A. - In: Journal of African business 14 (2013) 1/3, pp. 7-18

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The Effects of Remittances on Output per Worker in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Production Function Approach

Ssozi, John; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

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On the effect of state fragility on corruption

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014

The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to classical corruption or extreme corruption could have an important influence on academic and policy debates. Using updated data (1996-2010) from 53 African countries, we provide...

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The role of governance in mobile phones for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

This study assesses the synergy effects of governance in mobile phone penetration for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa with data for the period 2000-2012 by employing a battery of interactive estimation techniques, namely: Fixed effects (FE), Generalised Method of Moments (GMM)...

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Mobile phone penetration, mobile banking and inclusive development in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

The study assesses the role of mobile phones and mobile banking in decreasing inequality in 52 African countries. The empirical procedure involves first, examining the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and then investigating the contribution of mobile banking services in...

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Enhancing ICT for insurance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Review of development finance 9 (2019) 2, pp. 16-27

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