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Financial access, governance and insurance sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019

Purpose - This study investigates the role of financial access in moderating the effect of governance on insurance consumption in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries using data for the period 2004-2014. Design/methodology/approach - Two life insurance indicators are used, notably: life insurance...

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Financial access and value added in Sub-Saharan Africa : empirical evidence from the agricultural, manufacturing and service sectors

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2022

This research assesses the importance of financial access on value added in three economic sectors in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa using data for the period 1980-2014. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments. Financial access is measured with private domestic...

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Financial determinants of informal financial development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Soumtang, Valentine B.; Edoh, Ofeh M. - 2021

affect informal financial development and financial informalization differently in terms of magnitude and sign: bank overhead … costs; net internet margin; bank concentration; return on equity; bank cost to income ratio; financial stability; loans from … non-resident banks; offshore bank deposits and remittances. The determinants are presented from a plethora of perspectives …

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Financial access and productivity dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether enhancing financial access influences productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The research focuses on 25 countries in the region with data for the period 1980-2014. The adopted empirical strategy is the Generalised Method of Moments. The credit...

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Financial access and value added in Sub-Saharan Africa : empirical evidence from the agricultural, manufacturing and service sectors

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2022

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Financial development and small firms' tax compliance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Balde, Racky - 2021

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Impact of Remittanceson Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gupta, Sanjeev - 2007

This paper assesses the impact of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Though the region receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to developing countries, and the volume of aid flows to SSA swamps remittances, this paper finds that...

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Measuring Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gelbard, E. - 1999

This study introduces an index for measuring financial development and a set of six indices representing key characteristics of the financial systems in 38 sub-Saharan African countries. The results show that these countries have made good progress in improving and modernizing their financial...

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Optimal organization of financial intermediaries

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Wang, Tianxi - 2015

intermediation. In one structure, called Bank, the intermediary is financed by issuing debt contracts to investors, and thus …

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Interregional flow of funds in Japan via loans and deposits of financial institutions, and its determinants

Uesugi, Iichiro; Hiraga, Kazuki; Manabe, Masashi; … - 2022

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