In the first empirical assessment of the incidence of mobile banking on financial intermediary development in Africa … banking has a negative incidence on traditional financial intermediary dynamics of depth, activity and size. However, when a … previously missing informal-financial sector component is integrated into the definition (Asongu, 2011), mobile-banking has a …

'mobile phone penetration' and 'mobile banking', with a higher income-equalizing effect in the latter than in the former …

The study assesses the role of mobile phones and mobile banking in decreasing inequality in 52 African countries. The … investigating the contribution of mobile banking services in this relationship. The findings suggest an equalizing income …-redistributive effect of "mobile phone penetration" and "mobile banking", with a higher income-equalizing effect from mobile banking …

Using twenty-five policy variables, we investigate determinants of mobile phone/banking in 49 Sub-Saharan African … development, especially in the contemporary specifications. Fourth, mobile banking is positively linked with: (i) trade in …

in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). More specifically, we investigate the complementary role of knowledge diffusion in the …

sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as more than 45% of countries in the sub-region are off-track from achieving the Millennium …