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Purpose -This study investigates the role of ICT in modulating the effect of governance on insurance penetration in 42 … through governance channels are sparse, especially for a region such as sub-Saharan Africa where insurance penetration is low … are used in the analysis, namely: life insurance and non-life insurance. The three ICT modulating dynamics employed …
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This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … interact with primary school education to decrease income inequality. Second, all ICT indicators interact with secondary school … education and lifelong learning to have a positive effect on economic growth. Fourth, ICT indicators do not significantly …
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This study assesses how enhancing information and communication technology (ICT) affects life insurance and non …-life insurance in a panel of forty-eight African countries with data for the period 2004-2014. The adopted ICT dynamics are: mobile … net effect on life insurance consumption while enhancing fixed broadband subscriptions also has a positive net impact of …
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This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … interact with primary school education to decrease income inequality. Second, all ICT indicators interact with secondary school … education and lifelong learning to have a positive effect on economic growth. Fourth, ICT indicators do not significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863564
This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …
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This study investigates government quality determinants of ICT adoption using Generalised Method of Moments on a panel … of 49 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries for the period 2000-2012. ICT is measured with mobile phone penetration …, internet penetration and telephone penetration rates while all governance dimensions from the World Bank Governance Indicators …
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This study assesses how information diffusion dampens the adverse effect of market power on the price and quantity of loans provided by a panel of 162 banks from 39 African countries for the period 2001-2011. The empirical evidence is based on three endogenity-robust estimation techniques,...
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This study investigates loan price and quantity effects of information sharing offices with ICT, in a panel of 162 … Moments and Instrumental Quantile Regressions. Our findings broadly show that ICT with public credit registries decrease the … price of loans and increase the quantity of loans. While the net effects from the interaction of ICT with private credit …
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information sharing offices and information and communication technology (ICT). The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 162 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668538
Purpose – This study investigates the role of ICT in modulating the effect of governance on insurance penetration in 42 … through governance channels are sparse, especially for a region such as sub-Saharan Africa where insurance penetration is low … are used in the analysis, namely: life insurance and non-life insurance. The three ICT modulating dynamics employed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014104896