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Why do French civil-law countries have higher levels of financial efficiency?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

French civil-law countries have higher levels of financial allocation efficiency. Inflation uncertainty, typical of floating … allocation efficiency. …

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Bank efficiency and openness in Africa : do income levels matter?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2010

financial) triggers less bank efficiency in low income countries than in their middle income counterparts. These findings …

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Information sharing and banking efficiency in Africa : a disaggregated panel data analysis

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2022

The study assesses the how information sharing by means of mobile phones affects banking system efficiency in Africa … banking system efficiency. The following findings are established: (i) mobile phone penetration promotes banking system … efficiency in the 25th quantile and the median of banking system efficiency in low income countries while for middle income …

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Information for banking efficiency in Africa : evidence from income levels and legal origins

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2022

The study assesses how information sharing through mobile phones affects banking system efficiency in Africa with … banking system efficiency. The following findings are established: (i) mobile phone penetration promotes banking system … efficiency in the 25th quantile and the median of banking system efficiency in low-income countries, while for middle …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461752

Social media use for offline political action (OPA) and corruption in Africa : impacts and transmission channels

Ngassam, Sylvain Bertelet; Asongu, Simplice; Ngueleweu, … - 2023

Despite a growing literature on the determinants of corruption, existing studies are sparse on the channels through which social media curbs corruption using panel data. Social media is captured by the percentages of the population and elites that use social media for offline political actions...

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Diaspora remittance inflow, financial development and the industrialisation of Africa

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; Okafor, … - 2016

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive...

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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

The success of inclusive development strategies in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda depends substantially on the adoption of common inclusive development policies among nations. Building on the relevance of a knowledge economy in the post-2015 development agenda, this study models...

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Linkages between formal Institutions, ICT adoption and inclusive human development in Sub Saharan Africa

Andrés, Antonio R.; Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S.; … - 2016

Using data for 49 African countries over the years spanning 2000-2012, and controlling for a wide range of factors, this study empirically assesses the effects of formal institutions on ICT adoption in developing countries. It deploys 2SLS and FE regression models, (a) to estimate what...

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

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

A recent World Bank report reveals that poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as more than 45% of countries in the sub-region are off-track from achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target. This paper...

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Enhancing ICT for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongua, Simplice A.; Le Roux, Sara - 2016

This study assesses if increasing information and communication technology (ICT) enhances inclusive human development in a sample of 49 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence present in this study, is based on instrumental variable Tobit regressions, in...

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