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Mobile Banking and Mobile Phone Penetration : Which is More Pro-Poor in Africa?

Asongu, Simplice - 2014

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...

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Mobile Phone Penetration, Mobile Banking and Inclusive Development in Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 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...

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The Impact of Mobile Phone Penetration on African Inequality

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to complement theoretical and qualitative literature with empirical evidence on the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration in 52 African countries.Design/methodology/approach – Robust Ordinary Least Squares and Two Stage Least Squares...

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Mobile Telephony Access & Usage in Africa

Stork, Christoph - 2010

This paper uses data from nationally representative household survey conducted in 17 African countries to analyse mobile adoption and usage. This paper shows that countries differ in their levels of ICT adoption and usage and also in factors that influence adoption and usage. Income and...

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Are Fixed and Cell Phones Substitutes or Compliments? The Case of Brazil

Couri, Cristina Lohmann; Arbache, Jorge - 2006

This paper investigates whether the growth of cell telephony in Brazil after privatization is taking place at the expense of the fixed telephony. We use national household surveys and find that first, despite the rapid growth in cell telephony, complementarity between both types of telephony is...

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Residential mobile phone users complaints' in Spain

Pérez Amaral, Teodosio; Gijón, Covadonga; … - 2013

Consumer satisfaction is a key determinant of customer retention, profitability of operators, consumer welfare and a strategic variable for competition and international comparisons. Spain's mobile customer satisfaction is the lowest in the European Union according to recent EU studies (SMREC,...

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A study on the impact of mobile telecommunication on the welfare of Sub Saharan african countries

Plambeck, Hauke Heinrich Friedrich - 2010

Africa: A continent is waking up. Not through aid or wealth from the exploitation of natural resources, but through a … this competition is the source of a self propelled creation of welfare and new opportunities, motivated from within Africa … Saharan Africa. Chapter 2 builds on the static as well as the dynamic version of the Network Pricing Game, a model developed …

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Telecommunications and Economic Growth : An Empirical Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa

Lee, Sang Hyup - 2012

We examine the effect on economic growth of mobile cellular phones in sub-Saharan Africa where a marked asymmetry is … important determinant of the rate of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover, we find that the contribution of mobile …

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How has mobile phone penetration stimulated financial development in Africa?

Asongu, Simplice A. - In: Journal of African business 14 (2013) 1/3, pp. 7-18

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Mobile phones in the diffusion of knowledge and persistence in inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

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

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