become widespread and have increased investment by businesses, especially in East Africa. Second, women-owned business in the … study connects the two findings by exploring whether mobile money use by women-owned firms increases their investment. The … findings indicate that the positive relationship between mobile money use and investment is largely driven by women-owned firms …

assessment of the finance-investment nexus. Design/methodology/approach - VAR models in the perspectives of VECM and short … investment elasticities are positive, investment elasticities of finance are negative; (2)but for Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and … Togo, finance does not seem to engender portfolio investment; (3)contrary to mainstream literature, financial efficiency …

This study investigated the impact of financial sector development on domestic investment in selected Economic … investment depends on the measure of financial sector development utilised, (2) domestic credit to the private sector has a … positive but insignificant impact on domestic investment in ECOWAS while banking intermediation efficiency (i.e. ability of the …