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We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …
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We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907820
We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909557
Although Tanzania has made notable progress in enhancing access to financial services, the gender gap in financial … inclusion persists. This paper examines gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania using descriptive and regression … lag behind in access to and utilization of formal financial services. Based on FinScope Tanzania survey data for 2017, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545473
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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This study investigates the role that of mobile money on the effect of banking on income inequalities on a panel of 105 developing countries over a period from 1990-2019. We use the system GMMs estimator to examine this relationship for income inequality before as well as after taxes and...
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poverty. In this paper, we ask whether mobile money can help lift people out of poverty. Previous studies have addressed this …-level data to reevaluate the mobile money–poverty nexus. In particular, we study the impact of mobile money on district …-level poverty in Bangladesh over the period 2010–2016. Our study finds that every 1 billion Taka (approximately US$ 11.76 million …
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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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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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This study examined the determinants and impacts of mobile money (MM) usage on maize productivity and poverty … likelihood (i.e., the probability of a household falling below the international poverty line at USD 1.9 per capita per day) in … the Mbeya Region, Tanzania. The analysis was conducted using the endogenous switching regression (ESR) model on data from …
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