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This study assesses the synergy effects of governance in mobile phone penetration for inclusive human development in … (corruption-control and rule of law) governance are employed. The following findings are established. First, the previously …, whereas political governance is overwhelmingly not significant across estimated models, average effects from economic …
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This study assesses the mobile phone in the diffusion of knowledge for better governance in sub-Saharan Africa for the … quality) and ten governance indicators that are bundled and unbundled. The following are the main findings. First, there is an … unconditional positive effect of mobile phone penetration on good governance. Second, the net effects on political, economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596346
This study assesses the mobile phone in the diffusion of knowledge for better governance in sub-Saharan Africa for the … quality) and ten governance indicators that are bundled and unbundled. The following are the main findings. First, there is an … unconditional positive effect of mobile phone penetration on good governance. Second, the net effects on political, economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478778
This study assesses the synergy effects of governance in mobile phone penetration for inclusive human development in … (corruption-control and rule of law) governance are employed. The following findings are established. First, the previously …, whereas political governance is overwhelmingly not significant across estimated models, average effects from economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473722
This study investigates direct and indirect linkages between financial development and inclusive human development in data panels for African countries using a battery of estimation techniques, notably: Two-Stage Least Squares, Fixed Effects, Generalized Method of Moments and Tobit regressions....
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The success of inclusive development strategies in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda depends substantially on the adoption of common inclusive development policies among nations. Building on the relevance of a knowledge economy in the post-2015 development agenda, this study models...
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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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This paper examines the short and long term effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on inclusive human development in a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. ICT is measured in terms of mobile phone penetration, internet penetration and telephone...
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We examine policy thresholds of information sharing for financial development in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. Public credit registries (PCR) and private credit bureaus (PCB) are used as proxies for reducing information asymmetry whereas financial development includes all...
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governance in 47 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. Design/methodology/approach- The empirical inquiry uses … and the variation in three broad governance categories − political, economic and institutional. Findings- Three key … findings are established: First, in terms of individual governance indicators, mobile phones consistently stimulated good …
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