ICT Diffusion, Foreign Direct Investment and Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Overall FDI modulates ICT dynamics to engender positive synergy effects on inclusive growth and policy recommendations are provided in line with the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and the projected rise in FDI in SSA from 2022.About:
This article is published in Telematics and Informatics.The article was published on 2021-05-13 and is currently open access. It has received 47 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Inclusive growth & Foreign direct investment.read more
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Technology-driven information sharing and conditional financial development in Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined conditional financial development from ICT-driven information sharing in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011, using contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions.
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The Synergy of Financial Sector Development and Information Sharing in Financial Access: Propositions and Empirical Evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of information sharing in financialization and coexistence of financial sub-systems for financial access is assessed based on contemporary and non-contemporary Fixed Effects and Quantile regressions on 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011.
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Inclusive growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the interaction between ICT diffusion, and financial development
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the direct and indirect effects of ICT diffusion on inclusive growth in 42 SSA countries over the period 1980-2019 and provided evidence robust to several specifications from the dynamic system GMM to show that ICT skills, access and usage induce inclusive growth.
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Towards the quest to reduce income inequality in Africa: is there a synergy between tourism development and governance?
TL;DR: In this article , the authors provide strong evidence robust to several specifications from the GMM estimator to show that, though unconditionally both tourism development and governance reduce income inequality in Africa, the effect of the former is amplified in the presence of good economic, political and institutional governance.
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