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Implications of mandatory registration of mobile phone users in Africa
Jentzsch, Nicola - 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa ranks among the top regions in terms of growth in the number of mobile phone users. The success of … may be increasingly saturated and new regulations introduced across Africa could also have a negative impact on future … upon a panel dataset of 32 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the years 2000 to 2010. The results show that the …
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The role of mobile phones in governance-driven technology exports in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - 2017
) exports in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721134
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Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study investigates the role of mobile phones in governance for doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from …
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Mobile phone innovation and technology-driven exports in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
technology commodity exports in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737401
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496397
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409902
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410061
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410063
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How Has Mobile Phone Penetration Stimulated Financial Development in Africa?
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032580
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Conditional determinants of mobile phones penetration and mobile banking in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
Using twenty-five policy variables, we investigate determinants of mobile phone/banking in 49 Sub-Saharan African countries with data for the year 2011. The determinants are classified into six policy categories, notably: macroeconomic, business/bank, market-related, knowledge economy, external...
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