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

powerful than a phenomenon whose time has come. What is the macroeconomic empirical context of growing mobile banking? Perhaps … time has come: mobile banking. Design/Methodology: We decompose financial depth into formal, semi-formal and informal … sectors and then assess the incidence of mobile banking on each constituent. Thus the IFS (2008) definition of the financial …

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 …

have stimulated financial development in Africa. Within the framework of the dominant International Monetary Fund …

-crisis period. Fourth, the net effect from the: pre-crisis period is lower on money supply and banking system efficiency; post …