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Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa

Aker, Jenny C. - 2014

potential impacts upon quality of life in low-income countries, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa. They first … provide an overview of the patterns and determinants of mobile phone coverage in sub-Saharan Africa before describing the … development in sub-Saharan Africa. Careful impact evaluations of mobile phone development projects are required to better …

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The mobile phone in governance for environmental sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nting, Rexon T. - 2021

In this study, we assess how the mobile phone can be leveraged upon to improve the role of governance in environmental sustainability in 44 Sub-Saharan African countries. The Generalised Method of Moments is used to establish policy thresholds. A threshold is a critical mass or level of mobile...

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Mobile phone coverage and violent conflict

Ackermann, Klaus; Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 188 (2021), pp. 269-287

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The effects of mobile phone technology, knowledge creation and diffusion on inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2020

This paper examines the joint effects of mobile phone technology, knowledge creation and diffusion on inclusive human development in 49 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit regressions for the period 2000-2012. The net effects of interactions between the...

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Mobile phone penetration, mobile banking and inclusive development in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - In: African finance journal 18 (2016) 1, pp. 34-52

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Mobile phone innovation and environmental sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

This study investigates how the mobile phone can complement knowledge diffusion in order to influence CO2 emissions in 44 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. Three knowledge diffusion variables representing...

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Mobile phone innovation and inclusive human development : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Boateng, Agyenim; Akamavi, Raphael - 2016

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

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Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

The study investigates critical masses or thresholds of educational quality at which the diffusion of information with mobile phones enhances inclusive human development. The empirical evidence is based on simultaneity-robust Fixed Effects regressions with data from 49 Sub-Saharan African...

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Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 129 (2018), pp. 164-172

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Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Orim, … - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 131 (2018), pp. 183-203

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